Word Viewer: View Word Documents on Netbook without MS Office

Microsoft Word Viewer is a free software from Microsoft that lets you open, print, and copy Word documents in your netbook, even if you don’t have Microsoft Word installed. Word Viewer is a completely free software, and easy to use way to open and print word documents on your netbook, without a need to buy costly MS office.

There are many free software available, like AbiWord and OpenOffice, that can open and edit word documents on your netbook. However, if you don’t need to install such programs, and just need to open or print Word documents, Word Viewer is a good option.

Word Viewer can open following file types:

• Word Document (*.docx)
• Word Macro-Enabled Document (*.docm)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf)
• WordPerfect 5.x (.wpd)
• WordPerfect 6.x (.doc, .wpd)
• Text (.txt)
• Web Page formats (.htm, .html, .mht, .mhtml)
• XML (.xml)
• Works 6.0 (.wps)
• Works 7.0 (.wps)

For some of these file types, you might also need to install Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats. If you want to open PDF files on your netbook, you can use Foxit Reader.