Is there a way to preview or view parts of MS Word files?

Is there a way to preview, view or see an extract of text from a Word file using Server Connect File Management tools?

I have a situation where I have hundreds and hundreds of MS Word files (.doc, .docm but mainly .docx). My client would like access to these files (easy enough) but the file names are often not good enough to know what the file contains or refers to.

Without actually opening the files one-by-one, is there a way to either preview, view or extract text and display on screen? The files vary in size from 500kb to about 12Mb.

If not, can Word files be read and the text contents be stored in a database so they can be searched?

Any suggestions and guidance would be appreciated.