simple-docx

A 1 MB .docx viewer for Windows. No Office, no cloud.

Download DocxViewer-Setup.exe

• Double-click any .docx, drag and drop, or Ctrl+O
• Pages, fonts, tables and footnotes laid out close to Word
• Export to PDF in one click
• Documents are rendered on your PC and never uploaded
• English and Russian interface, picked from your system language

Speed

From launch to a rendered document, median of 5 repeat opens on an i7-12700H:

Document	Time
3 pages	0.35 s
23 pages	0.66 s
76 pages	0.82 s

Install

Run the installer. No admin rights needed. Uninstall from Settings > Apps. Requires the WebView2 Runtime, which is built into Windows 11.

• The installer is not signed yet, so Windows may show a SmartScreen warning: choose More info > Run anyway.
• If Word is your default app for .docx, Windows asks you to pick DOCX Viewer once in Settings.
• For unattended installs use DocxViewer-Setup.exe /silent.

Build

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File build.ps1

Output: dist\DocxViewer-Setup.exe. Built with WebView2 and a patched docx-preview bundled in vendor/.