Microsoft Word Viewer is a standalone freeware program for Microsoft Windows that lets users who do not own Microsoft Word view and print documents that were created in Microsoft Office. Microsoft Word Viewer is not available for purchase but can be downloaded from the Microsoft website for free. In order to edit viewed documents it is necessary to copy text to the clipboard and paste into an alternative editor.
According to the terms of the Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 license agreement, the software may be installed and used to view and screen print documents created with Microsoft Office software. The software may not be used for any other purpose.
Supported file formats in Microsoft Word Viewer are: doc, docx, docm, dot, rtf, wri, txt, htm, html, mht, mhtml, xml, wpd, wps. For viewing Office Open XML text documents (docx, docm), the "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats" must be installed.
Word Viewer 2003 was released on 15 December 2004 replacing Word Viewer 97-2000. It added support for Word XP and Word 2003 in addition to support for earlier versions.
Word Viewer 2007 was released on 26 September 2007 replacing Word Viewer 2003. Word Viewer 2007 is the same program as Word Viewer 2003, except it has been packaged with an associated Microsoft product, Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. The combination of files adds support for the additional file formats found in Office 2007 and later.
For Apple Mac OS X, no version of Microsoft Word Viewer has ever existed, but one can open (and save) Word files (.doc, .rtf) with TextEdit.
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