How to open a word document in Photoshop? A Microsoft word document cannot be simply opened in  Photoshop . Word documents are saved in .doc or .docx file formats which are not compatible with Photoshop. Photoshop deals with .psd, .jpeg, .gif, and other various image file formats. This is probably a strange tutorial as I usually talk about  cutting out images  using Photoshop. Why would you want to open a Word Document in Photoshop? You can do so many things on a computer, however people always want to do something that is not always possible. Here are a few reasons I can think of why you would want to open a word document in Photoshop: You might want to open a document full of pictures in Photoshop to edit them more professionally Maybe you want to split the Word document up into layers to enable better editing. You might want to use some special features in Photoshop that are not available in Microsoft Word. How do you open a Word document in Photo...