If you’re like most people, you probably use Office 365 to view and save images in PDF, DOCX, and XLSX formats. But if you want to view images without using Office, there are a few ways to do it. One way is to use the File Explorer window in the Windows 10 operating system. Another way is to open a file in the Finder and then use the View menu item to select Image Viewer. Finally, you can open an image file in a program such as Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator and use the Image Viewer tool from the File menu. There are also a few third-party image viewers that you can find online. For example, OpenOffice Image Viewer is available for free on the OpenOffice website. If you want to try out some of these viewers before buying one, be sure to read our reviews of each one before making your decision.
How does this work? Simple! All of the newer file formats in Office 2007 and Office 2010 are actually zip files containing XML and lots of folders, and they have all the media neatly embedded within that file.
Viewing Images from Office 2007/2010 Files
For our example, we’re using a Powerpoint file, as you can see here:
Simply change the extension of the file to .zip (you may have to head into Organize –> Folder and search options to enable the display of file extensions).
Now that you’ve done so, you can open up the zip file, and you’ll see a folder—for Powerpoint it’s named ppt, for Word it’ll be named word, and so on. Now open up that folder.
Once you’re there, open up the media folder…
And there you are, the image that the person could have just attached to the email message in the first place.
Frustration averted, slightly. Now if we could just convince people to stop using Office apps to store screenshots instead of simply attaching the image.
