In Microsoft Word, you can preview the document list within Word
without having to open the document. This tip is very useful, if you
have many word files and are not sure which file contain the information
that you need. Almost all versions of Word support this feature to view
all word file as preview one by one.
Follow
the given steps to preview the word document without having to open the
document:
First click on Start button, go to Program then click
on Microsoft Word to run the word application.

Now go to File menu and click on Open option to open
any word file. Here a small dialog will appear with title "Open".

Now on the right hand side of the toolbar click the down arrow on
Views and choose Preview.

This
will open the preview pane. Click on any file on the left hand
side and preview what inside the file. When you find the file you
need just click Open
button to open the file.
