Hilton Head Island Computer Club

General Meeting

Thursday, September 14, 2006

3:00 pm or 7:00 pm

 

MICROSOFT OFFICE VIEWERS AND CONVERTERS

 

For those of us who don’t use MS Office or who have experienced Microsoft’s lack of “backward compatibility”, they have been kind enough to develop a group of Viewers and Converters. To find these items, I originally did search in Google for “word viewers”.  Now, when I need to see a document and I don’t have the Microsoft program to open it, I go to www.microsoft.com and do a search there for “viewers”.

 

 The website to access these Office related applications is:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asp

 

For a full list of Microsoft viewers and converters go to the following address.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/results.aspx?Scope=DC&Query=viewers

           

 

Following are a few of the applications available:

 

Word Viewer: Word Viewer 2003 lets you open Word 2003 documents and documents created with all previous versions of Microsoft Word for Windows® and Microsoft Word for Macintosh. In addition to Word document files (.doc), you can also open files saved in the following formats:

 

 

Rich Text Format (.rtf) Text (.txt) Web Page formats (.htm, .html, .mht, .mhtml)

WordPerfect 5.x (.wpd) WordPerfect 6.x (.doc, .wpd) Works 6.0 (.wps) Works 7.0 (.wps)

 

 

Excel Viewer: With Excel Viewer 2003, you can open, view, and print Excel workbooks, even if you don't have Excel installed. You can also copy data from Excel Viewer 2003 to another program. However, you cannot edit data, save a workbook, or create a new workbook. This download is a replacement for Excel Viewer 97 and all previous Excel Viewer versions.

 

PowerPoint Viewer: PowerPoint Viewer 2003 lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions. This viewer also supports opening password-protected Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. You can view and print presentations, but you cannot edit them in the PowerPoint Viewer 2003.

 

Works 6.0 Converter for Works and Word Users: The Works 6.0 Converter converts word processor documents created in Microsoft Works 6.0 to Microsoft Word and other versions of Works. Specifically, this converter works with Works 2000, 4.5, and 4.x, and Word 2002, 2000, and 97 on machines running Microsoft Windows® 98, 2000 Professional, Millennium Edition, and XP.