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From: "Nannette" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.web.authoring
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 11:14 AM
Subject: Viewing from the browser

There is a Word Viewer which may be downlaoded for free.
There may even be a newer version than this link I found on a google.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9BBB9E60-E4F3-436D-A5A7
-DA0E5431E5C1&displaylang=EN

Hi Nanette,

The viewer that was mentioned hasn't been updated basically since Word 97.  All versions of Windows since Windows 98 can open the
Word .doc files in Windows Wordpad.  Neither Wordpad or the WordViewer handle the newer Word table and graphics features very well
so the site visitor may not see the layout of the Word documents as you intended.

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Our website has a link to open a ms word document,
currently this downloads the documents to the user's pc.
Some of our users do not have ms word on their
workstation. Is there a way for them to still be able to
view these ms word documents, at least from the browser? >>

You save the MS Word files as .MHT files. This file format is viewable
in Internet Explorer, and maintains the same formatting, images, etc.
that were included in the original document. You can also continue to
edit the files in Word.

Caveat: This works perfectly with MS Word 2003 and Internet Explorer
6.0. I'm not sure about older versions of either application.