Windows Word

[glowstick]

If I don't have Windows Word installed on my computer; can I still receive documents sent to me by someone using Word?

[A.J..]

You can recieve Word documents and Microsoft has a free viewer so that you can read them.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en

[stan94]

you can also download OpenOffice

http://www.openoffice.org/

description:

OpenOffice.org is both a multi-platform and multi-lingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

[Ken_ver_1_5]

You can recieve Word documents and Microsoft has a free viewer so that you can read them.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en

I thought I would mention this viewer doesn't seem to be compatible
with windows 98se

[Bluvertigo]

Word 97-2000 Viewer
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0E56D944-38F6-4EB5-ACA6-8BD280D5E6B1&displaylang=en

This is compatible with Windows 98.

[frostyone]

Abiword is free, open source.
It's also less than 5 Mb. download


AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more.
http://www.abisource.com/

[glowstick]

I've been rather dilatory with my responses....help very much appreciated!