How to Open Microsoft Word Using Gmail. Many small business owners use Gmail, Google's web-based email service, to receive and distribute files including documents such as contracts, invoices and ...

Gmail offers a few ways for you to transfer work that you compose in Microsoft Word. You can upload your Word document as an attachment. You can paste the document's content into the email editor.

However, Gmail doesn't send emails with more than 25MB of attachments. The size limit prevents clutter in your inbox, but it makes sharing large documents and files challenging.