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Microsoft Word Viewer

View and print Word, Rich Text, text, HTML, XML, WordPerfect, and Works documents without Microsoft Word installed; copy content from various supported formats but editing is not available; requires Compatibility Pack for newer file types.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

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  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Windows
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Discontinued

Microsoft Word Viewer is being retired in November 2017. Microsoft recommends using the free Microsoft Word icon Microsoft Word Mobile app, available for free from the stores for Windows, iOS and Android

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Microsoft Word Viewer was added to AlternativeTo by Danilo Venom on and this page was last updated . Microsoft Word Viewer is sometimes referred to as Word Viewer. 

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What is Microsoft Word Viewer?

View, print and copy Word documents, even if you dont have Word installed. The Word Viewer, together with the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats, allows you open Word documents saved in the following formats:

  • Word Document (*.docx)
  • Word Macro-Enabled Document (*.docm)
  • 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)
  • XML (.xml)