office viewer downloads - non-windows

[Martin Eyles]

Hi,
I was just wondering where viewers for office documents can be
downloaded. I want to add a link on the company website, but can only find
office viewers for windows 2k and up, not for mac & linux.

Thanks,
Martin

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Word Viewer 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...87-8732-48d5-8689-ab826e7b8fdf&displaylang=en

Excel Viewer 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f4-996c-4569-b547-75edbd03aaf0&displaylang=en

PowerPoint Viewer 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...27-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en

Visio 2003 Viewer
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...5c-fed1-46cf-bd53-da23635ab2df&displaylang=en

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| Hi,
| I was just wondering where viewers for office documents can be
| downloaded. I want to add a link on the company website, but can only find
| office viewers for windows 2k and up, not for mac & linux.
|
| Thanks,
| Martin
|
| --
| Martin Eyles

 

[Martin Eyles]

:

| Hi,
| I was just wondering where viewers for office documents can be
| downloaded. I want to add a link on the company website, but can only find
| office viewers for windows 2k and up, not for mac & linux.
|
Word Viewer 2003

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...87-8732-48d5-8689-ab826e7b8fdf&displaylang=en

That page states the following:-

System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server
2003; Windows XP

If you read my original post, you will see that I state I have found a
viewer for win 2k and up, but cannot find one for mac & linux. Does anyone
know where the viewers for other operating systems are?

Thanks,
Martin

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Martin,

Probably not going to be a MS produced viewer for
a Linux system. For the Mac you may want to check
with the folks in the MS Office Mac newsgroup (link below)
and let them know which Mac OS you're using.


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"If you read my original post, you will see that I state I have found a
viewer for win 2k and up, but cannot find one for mac & linux. Does anyone
know where the viewers for other operating systems are?

Thanks,
Martin >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Microsoft Office:Mac newsgroups:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.mac.office
or
http://microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups

Microsoft Office:Mac products and updates
http://microsoft.com/mac

 

[Martin Eyles]

Hi,
it has been suggested I post this message to the mac newsgroup.
Basically, there are some word documents on our site, and in order to help
visitors I think we need to add a link to download the office/word viewer.
However, I can only find the viewer for windows, not mac or linux. Does
anyone here know of a mac version I can link to.

Thanks,
Martin

 

[Mickey Stevens]

Microsoft doesn't make a Mac viewer for Word. Panergy Software makes a
commercial product for this called icWord.
<http://www.panergy-software.com/products/icword/>

Another option is the free Word Browser Plugin from Schubert-it, which
allows you to view Word documents in a web browser.
<http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginword/>

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Why reinvent the wheel? Convert the Word documents to PDF, and
post the PDF files on your site.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Yes, that was the suggestion, but no, this is *not* the Mac Office group.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

OpenOffice does a fairly good job of displaying and working with
documents in MS Word format (as long as you don't care about fonts,
formatting or how your documents look)
http://www.openoffice.org/

NeoOffice claims it uses Apple fonts, but I haven't tried it:
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php

If you only need Word for 30 days or less there's a free trial here:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=office2004td

If you want to buy Word without the rest of office you can purchase it
as a stand-alone.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/word2004/word2004.aspx?pid=howtobuy

-Jim

 

[JE McGimpsey]

but no, this is *not* the Mac Office group.

it was cross-posted...

 

[Abut]

Can I suggest you look at the v2.0 beta of OpenOffice? You may find
your opinion changes.

Martin Taylor

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

I'm open to changing my opinion. The first few iterations of Sun
computer's OpenOffice were terrible. Many of the bugs have been fixed
and now it is at least good enough to use for some purposes.

When release version 2 is available I will install it and see how it
goes. I'll wait patiently until then. I've heard it will be a good release.

-Jim

 

[Martin Eyles]

(e-mail address removed)

Why reinvent the wheel? Convert the Word documents to PDF, and
post the PDF files on your site.

Thankyou, I think this is the suggestion we will follow - it is the only one
that appears to give us a free cross platform viewer that is a small enough
download (openoffice.org is huge). This leaves just one problem. How can we
convert our word documents to .pdf. I have heard of adobe distiller - is
this available for a reasonable price (I only found the expensive server
version on their site, but I am looking for a 1 or 2 user version).

Thanks,
Martin

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Adobe Acrobat (see
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/main.html ) is the original
PDF program, and yes, it is relatively expensive even in the
single-user version. There are numerous shareware and freeware
clones (see
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pdf+converter&btnG=Google+Search
) available that can do some or most of what Acrobat can.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Almost forgot... I think Word and Office 2001 and 2004 (and maybe
earlier Mac versions too) include Adobe Acrobat.

 

[Michel Bintener]

No, Microsoft Office does not come with Adobe Acrobat. Why should it?
Acrobat and Office are two completely different products from two completely
different companies, and even though they are in many ways complementary,
they are not related to one another.
To create PDF files, you could use Mac OS X's built-in PDF creation service,
which you can find in Word's Print menu. Note however that the PDF files Mac
OS X produces tend to be large, and they do not have the advanced
capabilities of PDF files created by Adobe Acrobat.

Michel

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Thanks for the clarification. I'm not a Mac person obviously. I
thought it was possible to make PDF files from MacWord without
having to purchase Acrobat, and you've explained why (because
MacOS provides the ability to convert to PDF, and it works in
MacWord).

 

[mmmmark]

There are ways to ratchet down the file size using a Colorsync profile.
While not intuitively obvious to the casual observer, once set up, it
provides some flexibility. Another drawback of creating PDFs from Word is
multiple PDFs from one file, but this can be overcome with freeware
'combiners' available at Versiontracker.

-Mark