Word Reader 5.0 lets you read DOC, DOCX files without MS Office
by Brad Linder Jun 9th 2009 at 12:00PM
Basically, Word Reader will let you open and read DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, or HTML files. You can't create or edit files. Just open and read them. It handles formatting pretty well, although it seems to have issues importing some images.
Microsoft also offers a free Word 2007 viewer for Windows, but the Microsoft viewer weighs in at 25MB, while Word Reader 5.0 is just a 5MB download. So if you've got limited bandwidth, this could be the way to go.
Alternately, you could install OpenOffice.org or Abiword, or use an online office suite like Google Docs or Zoho Writer to open Word files. Or you could use online file conversion service Zamzar to convert the docs to a format you can read.
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Cam said 12:09PM on 6-09-2009
Looks a lot like adobe reader.
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Molly said 3:21PM on 6-09-2009
Jarte is yet another word processor capable of dealing with DOCX formatted documents.
http://www.jarte.com/
and with only 2.8 MB (portable version 3.6 MB) it is probably the most 'bandwidth-friendliest' of them all :)
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Patrick said 8:19AM on 6-15-2009
Hehe, true, the interface does look like acrobat 8 !! but at least it gets the job done. nice find
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