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What is Twitter?Yesterday my father rang me wanting some help with opening a Microsoft Word document. He didn't have Microsoft Office installed, there was no way he was going to pay up to $229 to buy it and to cap it all, he'd never even used a word processor before. I shuddered at the challenge that lay ahead of me but to my pleasant surprise, within 10 minutes I'd taught him how to open, edit, save and even send the document by e-mail - and all without having to have Microsoft Office or Word installed on his computer. If my dad can do it, anyone can and so here's 3 ways that you can do the same:
1. Google Docs
If you've received the document by e-mail, download it, go to Google Docs and upload it. Note that you'll need to sign-up for a Google Account first.
Simply browse to the file you want to upload and it will open automatically in Google Docs.
From there you can edit it in much the same way as you can in Word and send it by e-mail directly from your Gmail account.
2. Open Office
Download the free Open Office suite and you can open documents in Writer.
This method offers you far more editing power than Google Docs although because it requires downloading and setting-up the suite, is marginally more lengthy and complicated. However, when Open Office is installed, you've got yourself a fully functional Office suite that's comparable to MS Office absolutely free!
3. Microsoft Word Viewer 2007
This is a purely viewing only software offered for free by Microsoft which enables you to open Word documents but not edit them. This is fine if all you want to do is read a document but don't need to fill in any details, change it or basically edit it in any way.
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Nice post. Clear and easy to follow. Thanks. I had forgotten about "Open Office" and am going to download it now. Cheers.
can u get the word viewer 2003 without installing windows? thanks
Thanks for the comments Newtronbom :) Marzug, I'm afraid Word Viewer 2003 won't work without Windows - Microsoft have to get you in somehow ;)
Just to let you know for mac there is also Neo Office great program as weel, like open office
I've been using open office for about a year, and I think its great. I use it for the reason you stated in your article, to open MSoffice and other older formats. Best of all, Open Office is free.
Thanks for the tip Vic - I'll be taking a closer look at Neo Office later.
thanx
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I just wanted to thank the author for posting this information. You have no idea how much of a help this has been! I am a on deadline with a magazine to get something done tonight and my pc laptop crashed, I didn't have word on my mac and I had to open my document...it's been a nightmare. I used Google Docs and I didn't have to Download anything! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
Glad it helped Carmine!
U saved my life! i had a paper due in today and it word would not open it! thanks to your tips now i've managed to finish it :)
Glad it helped PJ. Good luck with the paper :)
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nice post very educational. More power and God bless.:-)
the link for word viewer does not work!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!
Thank you for this post. My word has just expired and I needed to open some files. Now I am using open office.
Hi, Above post is really good and helped a lot to understand. Is there any other option to JUST to open Office files for reading (without installing viewer or office) on client machine? I am wondering as we can make Powerpoint application that can open without viewer/office. Most welcome for any suggestion or help in ADVANCE....
Thank you for this! Google Docs was the way to go for me.
Nice Tips, thanks Bro...
How do you open a pdf file with microsoft 2003?
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