MS Word Alternatives
Some of the documents on this website are available for download in Microsoft Word format. If you do not have MS Word software, you may still view and print these documents with the utilities and products listed on this page. While this website neither tests nor endorses these products, you may want to give them a try if you find yourself in need of a tool to read MS Word files.
Windows Platform:
Free MS Word Document Viewer (Word 97/2000) [3860 kb download]
System Requirements for Using Word Viewer:
A personal computer with a 486 or higher processor
Microsoft Windows® 95 operating system or Microsoft Windows NT® Workstation operating system 3.51 or later
4 MB of memory for Windows 95 (8 MB recommended)
12 MB of memory for Windows NT Workstation
7 MB of hard disk space (9 MB free for installation only)
VGA or higher-resolution video adapter
Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
StarOffice from Sun Microsystems
StarOffice software is an affordable alternative in office productivity suites that runs on multiple operating systems, including Solaris[tm] Operating Environment, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. The office suite has a simple, easy-to-use interface and contains full-featured applications including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics and database capabilities.
StarOffice Users Group: http://www.staroffice.com/
OpenOffice.org 1.0 - Source Project
OpenOffice is a collaborative project designed to create an open-source, cross-platform office suite of software tools. Definitely worth looking into for Windows, Unix and Mac OS X platforms. The software is free to download and free to use.
Macintosh Platform:
For some reason, Microsoft doesn't seem to offer a Word Document Viewer for the Macintosh but that shouldn't stop us! There are a number of quality products that offer Word document viewing.
AppleWorks
AppleWorks is a high-quality integrated software suite for both Macintosh and Windows platforms. Offering word processing and spreadsheet capabilities, among many others, AppleWorks includes the ability to read and write MS Word and Excel files.
http://www.apple.com/appleworks/
OpenOffice.org 1.0 - Source Project
OpenOffice is a collaborative project designed to create an open-source, cross-platform office suite of software tools. Definitely worth looking into for Windows, Unix and Mac OS X platforms. The software is free to download and free to use.
VINC
One product that's available in a trialware version is from Recosoft Corporation. It runs on the Mac platform and supports over 60 Macintosh and Windows word processing and graphics file types. The product is called VINC and though we've not tried it, if you're "Wordless on a Mac," you might want to give it a try...
Recosoft Webpage: http://www.recosoft.com/
VINC download pages:
Download.com: VINC download
icWord
Another utility, available also as a trialware version, is called icWord, a document viewer for MS Word and AppleWorks files. icExcel also supports viewing of MS Excel files.
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Linux & Solaris Platforms:
StarOffice from Sun Microsystems
StarOffice software is an affordable alternative in office productivity suites that runs on multiple operating systems, including Solaris[tm] Operating Environment, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. The office suite has a simple, easy-to-use interface and contains full-featured applications including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics and database capabilities.
StarOffice product info: click here
StarOffice Users Group: http://www.staroffice.com/
OpenOffice.org 1.0 - Source Project
OpenOffice is a collaborative project designed to create an open-source, cross-platform office suite of software tools. Definitely worth looking into for Windows, Unix and Mac OS X platforms. The software is free to download and free to use.
last update: 07/31/2008