This tutorial will show you how to convert and display a Word document file in an HTML web page template or format properly and easily.

Here are different methods using which you can save a Microsoft Word (DOC, DOCX) document as a JPEG image on Windows PC.

Open the Internet Explorer browser and navigate to a website that has a Word document that you want to download. Right-click on the linked document file.

You can convert a Word doc to a JPG in a few steps. The easiest method is to use the screenshot tool in Windows or Mac to select text within Word.

To automatically open Word files in OpenOffice, change the default program to OpenOffice on either Windows 8 or Windows 7 workstations.

If you have an older version of Word, you can still open .docx files—just go to Microsoft's Web site and download a free update called the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are ...

More by David Pogue This article was originally published with the title “How to Read Old MS Word Files When Word Says You Can't” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 317 No. 5 (November 2017) ...