Viewers for Word documents for Macintosh.

[Guest]

Does anyone know of any viewers available for word documents on Macintosh
systems? We are a small school who's computer person is gone on extended
leave. We are unable to upgrade some of the users until she returns.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

[cross-posting to MacWord group]

Does anyone know of any viewers available for word documents on Macintosh
systems? We are a small school who's computer person is gone on extended
leave. We are unable to upgrade some of the users until she returns.

I'm not sure if there is a Mac Word Viewer or not, although I'm pretty sure
if there is, it will only run in Classic. I don't really see how a viewer
would help your situation, though.

For direct access to Mac specific newsgroups:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups>

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

[re-cross-posting to MacWord group because I can't spell]

 

[John McGhie]

There are no Mac Word "viewers".

You can save the document as a Web Page. If you do, any Mac browser will
open it.

You can save the document as PDF.

Of you can load an old (cheap!) version of Word. Word 98 and above share
the same (current) file format. So anything you find in the remainder bin
of your local computer shop -- Word 98 or above -- will do you.

Let's not lose sight of the open source office applications, most of which
will open the current Word file format with varying degrees of success.

Regards

[re-cross-posting to MacWord group because I can't spell]

I'm not sure if there is a Mac Word Viewer or not, although I'm pretty sure
if there is, it will only run in Classic. I don't really see how a viewer
would help your situation, though.

For direct access to Mac specific newsgroups:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups>

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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

 

[JE McGimpsey]

[re-cross-posting to MacWord group because I can't spell]

I'm not sure if there is a Mac Word Viewer or not, although I'm pretty sure
if there is, it will only run in Classic. I don't really see how a viewer
would help your situation, though.

For direct access to Mac specific newsgroups:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups>

I don't know of a free dedicated viewer. Here are some of the potential
solutions I know of:

Free, but run in X11 (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/ ):

Open Office (Reads/writes excel files):
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html

AbiWord (reads/writes Word files - have to compile from source):
http://www.abisource.com/

Commercial:

Appleworks Suite ($80) (free with some hardware configs):
http://www.apple.com/appleworks/

icWord ($20)
http://www.panergy-software.com/products/icword/index.html

ThinkFree Office ($50), full office suite:
http://www.thinkfree.com/

Mariner Write ($70, $130 includes lifetime upgrades)
http://www.marinersoftware.com

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Corentin_Cras-M=E9neur?=]

Hi John,

There are no Mac Word "viewers".

TextEdit from MacOS X 10.3.x will display them (though not perfectly...
no complex table or embedded images for instance).
Otherwise you still have all the alternate options John (the other one
;-)) ) mentioned in his post.


Corentin

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

[re-cross-posting to MacWord group because I can't spell]

I'm not sure if there is a Mac Word Viewer or not, although I'm pretty sure
if there is, it will only run in Classic. I don't really see how a viewer
would help your situation, though.

For direct access to Mac specific newsgroups:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups>

icWORD. But it not fool proof and in sme case not accurate. On some word
docments page and section breaks are not handled accurately. They allow
you to test drive before buying.

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