Microsoft Word Question

[trebor78]

I have written several documents in Word from the Office 1997 Suite. I want to burn these documents to some CD's which I would then mail to people who are interested in the subject I have written about. One of these documents/files is about 350 pages in length.

My question is this: Some of the people who receive my CD's may not have Word installed on their computers. Will they be able to read the Word documents even though Word is not installed on their computers?

Thank you very much for any help.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Depends on the format they are saved as.

Open Office will open and read almost all types of word documents.

They will have to have something installed though.

[sam13484]

They can download a free MS Word viewer from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

It lets you read, but not edit Word documents.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Oh man I never knew of that one!!!! Thanks alot.

[Ponch]

They can download a free MS Word viewer from Microsoft

He might as well put the viewer on the cd, that'll save them time.

Or OpenOffice... depending who has broadban.

[nmX.Memnoch]

Double post...see my reply in the other thread.

Also, about putting the Word Viewer on the CD, one might want to check the EULA to see if it allows redistribution. If it doesn't, just include a link to the download.

Edited December 11, 2007 by nmX.Memnoch