View, Print and Copy Word Documents Even if You Dont Have MS Word

For Small and Medium Enterprises, Innovation is the name of the game and if as a business you are not upto it, then you surely have lots of catching up to do. SMEs require solutions which solve their very many needs, while being cost effective and within their operational budgets.

SMEs and Technology
While many small and emerging businesses are waking up to the fact that they need effective use of technology at all times for being smart operationally, technology makers and vendors are coming up with innovative solutions, some of them  free which are helping SMEs solve pending business challenges.

Let Word Viewer work for you!
While Microsoft Word is an important office productivity software, it also makes it challenging for smaller businesses to buy costly licences to the MS Office productivity suite. Buying licenses for every team member becomes a challenge which obviously needs a solution. And who better than Microsoft coming up and providing a solution to the challenge.

While you cannot edit, but MS Word Viewer, allows you to View, print and copy Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed. The Word Viewer, together with the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats, allows you open Word documents saved in the following formats:

• Word Document (.docx)
• Word Macro-Enabled Document (.docm)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf)
• Text (.txt)
• Web Page formats (.htm, .html, .mht, .mhtml)
• WordPerfect 5.x (.wpd)
• WordPerfect 6.x (.doc, .wpd)
• Works 6.0 (.wps)
• Works 7.0 (.wps)
• XML (.xml)

How do I get the Word Viewer?

You can simply download the Word Viewer from the official source of the Microsoft website. Once you start downloading the software onto your local machine, follow the below listed instructions:

1. Download the file by clicking the Download button (above) and saving the file to your hard disk.
2. Double-click the wdviewer.exe program file on your hard disk to start the Setup program.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.
4. Install the Compatibility Pack.

Once you have the Compatibility pack downloaded and installed on your local machine (laptop/ desktop) use the following instructions to learn how to use the software:

1. On the File menu, click Open.
2. In the Look in list, click the drive, folder, or Internet location that contains the file you want to open.
3. In the folder list, locate the file, or locate and open the folder that contains the file.
4. Click the file, and then click Open.

One you are downloading the file from Microsoft's website, it re-directs you to the information page, where, it gives you all the information related to the software and the various instructions of its usage, which you can copy and past on a notepad in your local machine.

How does this software help my business?

While it does not allows you to edit and create documents, Windows Word Viewer allows you to view, print and copy the documents, which is important in the manner that, small companies which cannot afford the licensed version of the MS office, can go buy a single license, and use the viewer on the other systems which require only being a dumb machine and are connected to the server to fetch any information. Its more a networked solution, which works best for SMEs.

There are many such tools available online, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!