Open HWP, Word and Excel files without installing anything
Open a Hangul (.hwp, .hwpx), Word, Excel, text or CSV file right here on a PC or a phone, with nothing to install. PowerPoint files show their text only, and a PDF opens in your browser's own PDF viewer (in a new tab on phones). No sign-up and no ads; the file is opened inside your browser and is not uploaded.
Press “Choose a file”, or drop the file onto the box.
A Hangul file shows page by page as it was laid out; Word, Excel and PowerPoint files show as a reading view.
To find a word in a Hangul file, type it into “Find words in this document” and press “Find”, then tap a page number to jump there.
To look at another file, press “Open another file”.
If something goes wrong
On Android, add Kitshelf to your home screen from Chrome's menu. After that it appears when you share a file from KakaoTalk or the Files app, and the file opens here without leaving your phone.
Old .doc, .xls and .ppt files, and password-protected Word or Excel files, cannot be opened here. Save them as .docx or .xlsx in the original program first. A password-protected Hangul file opens once you type its password.
Hangul fonts are replaced with the ones on your device, so line breaks can differ slightly from Hangul's. Word, Excel and PowerPoint files are shown as a reading view, not as their programs lay them out.
How the viewer worksHow this works
Your file stays on your device
The file you choose is opened by this page inside your browser. It is not uploaded: this tool has no upload step and no server route. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, text and CSV files are read by code that came with the page, so once the page has loaded they open even with the internet switched off.
Hangul files (.hwp, .hwpx) need one more piece: the first time you open one, the page fetches its Hangul reader from this same site, about 12 MB. After that the file is read on your device too. The line under the file name counts the network requests made while your file was being opened.
What each kind of file shows
Hangul files are drawn page by page at the paper size set in the file. Fonts are replaced with ones on your device, so line breaks can differ slightly from Hangul's. Word files are shown as a reading view: paragraphs, headings, bold, italic and underline, lists, tables and pictures. Page layout, fonts, colours, headers, footers and footnotes are not reproduced.
Excel files show each sheet as a table of the values Excel saved. Formulas are not calculated again, and number formats such as currency or thousands separators are not applied; cells in a date or time format are shown as dates and times. Up to 2,000 rows and 100 columns of a sheet are shown. PowerPoint files show the text of each slide only. PDF files open in your browser's built-in PDF viewer. Text and CSV files are read as UTF-8, or as the Korean encoding Excel uses (EUC-KR) when they are not UTF-8.
Finding words in a Hangul file
The pages of a Hangul file are shown as pictures, so your browser's own find (Ctrl+F) cannot see their words. Type a word in the search box instead: the page counts how many times it appears and lists the pages it is on. Tap a page number to jump to it. Line breaks are treated as spaces, so a phrase that wraps onto the next line is still found.
The copy button puts the whole document's text on your clipboard, to paste into an email, a translator or a chat. Use the zoom buttons to fit pages to the screen or show them at full size, and the page box to jump to a page. To keep the file as a PDF, use the HWP to PDF tool on this site.
Files it cannot open
Old Office formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt) are not read; this viewer reads the newer .docx, .xlsx and .pptx. A password-protected Word, Excel or PowerPoint file cannot be opened. A password-protected Hangul file asks for its password. Files locked by a company security program (DRM) open only inside that company's own system.
A damaged file, or a file that is not what its name says, is named and not shown. Opening a second file replaces the first. Nothing is kept after you close the page.
No. The file is opened inside your browser and this tool has no upload step. Hangul files need a reader that the page fetches from this same site the first time (about 12 MB); your file itself is not sent. The line under the file name counts the network requests made while it was opening.
Will the document look exactly as it does in Word or Excel?
Not exactly. Hangul files are drawn page by page, with your device's fonts. Word files are shown as a reading view (text, headings, lists, tables, pictures) without the page layout. Excel shows the values Excel saved, without recalculating formulas, up to 2,000 rows and 100 columns. PowerPoint shows the text of each slide only, and PDF uses your browser's own viewer.
Which files can it not open?
Old .doc, .xls and .ppt files, password-protected Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, files locked by a company security program (DRM), and damaged files. A password-protected Hangul file opens once you enter its password.