Also perform many different functions

A friend of mine called me recently asking how they could quickly view a PowerPoint presentation on their computer without using Office since they didn’t have it installed. I told her not to worry because there are plenty of ways to view Office files without actually needing Office.

Thanks to Google and cloud computing in general, you now have fully functional office productivity suites that you can use right from your browser. When Google came out with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, it forced Microsoft to rethink their entire Office strategy. Now, Microsoft has a free version of their Office suite that you can use online to create and edit files.

In this article, I'll show you a few different tools that you can use to open PDFs, Microsoft Office files, Photoshop files, etc. for free. The biggest downside to anything free is that the features are limited. For example, the online Office or Word will let you do basic editing tasks, but not the more advanced tasks like mail merging or footnotes, etc. However, if you just want to view a file, these solutions are fine.