The Files app makes it easier to find and open files on ChromeOS. Like other operating systems, you only need to double-click a file to open it most times. Open the Files app.

If you can't open a file on your computer, don't give up right away. These tricks will give you a fighting chance of accessing or recovering its contents.

While admittedly it’s not as simple as it is on macOS to open a .docx file using Pages, here's how to open, edit and even re-export .pages files on a Windows PC.

Once you have everything ready, it's time to open that SMB-shared file. How to open a file from a Samba share 1. Open LibreOffice The first thing to do is open LibreOffice from your desktop menu.