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Diesel_Staffie
21 Mar 08, 10:00 AM
i need to open a word document but dont have word, Help !!

thanks :spin:
Dissuziq
21 Mar 08, 10:10 AM
If you just need to open it and look at it and print then you need to download the viewer

from microsoft this is word 2003 (http://http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en)

You will then be able to look at it similar to viewing pdf docs
Diesel_Staffie
21 Mar 08, 10:12 AM
thats the thing i have word but the trial expired! so i can still open it and view it, but its a form that i need to fill in!

sorry i should of mentioned that x
SMAX
21 Mar 08, 10:18 AM
Download OpenOffice.

It is an open source (FREE) office package that will open all word/excel/access/powerpoint documents and you will find it almost the same to use as M$ office.

http://www.openoffice.org/
Octal
21 Mar 08, 05:55 PM
In my opinion OpenOffice is better than Microsoft Office anyway, I have to use MS Office at work and I don't like it, it's too intuitive for my liking.
Diesel_Staffie
21 Mar 08, 06:08 PM
So its safe to download? also is it just for viewing items or can i edit etc ?

thanks
Silver99
21 Mar 08, 07:59 PM
OpenOffice is decent, but a lot of hassle if you're just trying to work with one document.

If you have a google account you can upload a Word doc to Google docs. It will automatically convert and store it online for you. Much easier. Read here:

http://groups.google.com/group/How-to-Documents/browse_thread/thread/1f07bd9ec949e44c
Andre
22 Mar 08, 08:43 AM
Why not just download Open Office and use it as your standard word processor from now on? You won't get much better for free, honest, and it does pretty much everything that Word does. You'll also get the rest of the suite free too of course (spreadsheet, database, etc)

Andre
Octal
22 Mar 08, 05:52 PM
So its safe to download? also is it just for viewing items or can i edit etc ?

thanks

It will do everything you need, it is a full blown office suit, just because it's free doesn't mean to say it's no good. It is perfectly safe to download.

As a matter of interest there are a lot of commercial companies in the world using OpenOffice because of the cost savings by not using Microsoft products.