Here, is a list of 4 free Word viewer software for Windows.
Microsoft Word is a feature-rich word processing software, which is being used widely all over the world. You often create and edit documents in Word and save them for later use. However, it’s not necessary that every machine on which you intend to open that document, has Microsoft word installed on it. Also, if you are using an older version of Microsoft Word, you won’t be able to open Word documents in latest .DOCX format. A Word Viewer comes handy in these situations since it lets you open and read Word documents in all formats, without having to install the whole Microsoft Word application. Another good advantage of using these Word Viewer applications is that they are very lightweight and don’t slow down your computer speed, when in use.
Here, we are going to discuss about 4 such free Word Viewer, which lets you open and view Word documents, when you don’t have Microsoft Word or any other word processing software installed on your system.
Microsoft Office Word Viewer:
Microsoft Office Word Viewer is a free software to open, view, copy, and print Word documents, when you don’t have Word installed on your PC. The app has been developed by Microsoft and is available for free on its official website. It provides a user-friendly interface to allow users to easily open and read all kinds of Word documents. However, it’s not a multi-window Viewer. You can open just a single document at a time. The document will be opened in its original layout, clearly displaying all the images inserted in the document.
Microsoft Office Word Viewer supports various Word document formats, including All Word documents (.DOC, .DOCX), XML files, Web Pages, Document Templates, Rich Text Format, and Text Files.
Works With: Windows
Price: Free
Download: Click here to Download Microsoft Office Word Viewer.
Word Reader:
Word Reader is a free Word Viewer application that lets you view Word documents in all formats. It’s a handy and lightweight tool, which allows you to open and view Word documents, without prior installation of Microsoft Word. The supported formats include .DOCX (MicroSoft Word 2007-2010 format), .DOC (MicroSoft Word 97-2003 format), .RTF (Rich Text Format), .TXT (Plain Text Format), and .HTML ( Hyper Text Markup Language format). When you open any file in Word Reader, it creates a quick link for it, which you can click to directly open the document, without browsing for it again. It also shows some convert file and PDF document viewing features on its interface, but those are available only with the paid version.
A very good thing about this Word Viewer is that it opens each Word document in separate resizable window, allowing you to compare two or more documents at the same time. Word Reader offers previewing any Word file, WordPad file, or Notepad file in its original layout, but it can’t open images in the file. It blackouts the document area which contains images.
Word Reader also provides some other interesting features, like for example, you can zoom the document, increase the font size, search for any text in the document, or even print a hard copy of it. Word reader is currently available in many languages, including English, German, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, and French.
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Works With: Windows
Price: Free
Download: Click here to download Word Reader.
TextMaker Viewer 2010:
TextMaker Viewer 2010 is a free software that allows you to view contents present in most popular word processing formats, including DOC, TXT, RTF, PDF, and HTML. It’s a handy and lightweight tool which supports a wide range of word processing formats for preview. The supported formats includes .docx, .docm Microsoft Word 2007, .doc Microsoft Word 6.0 up to Word 2007, .sxw OpenOffice.org/StarOffice Text, .dotx, .dotm Microsoft Word 2007 templates, .dot Microsoft Word templates 6.0 up to 2007, .txt Text files (DOS, Unicode, Windows, UTF-8), .rtf Rich Text Format, .htm/html HTML documents, .psw Pocket Word (Pocket PC), .pwd Pocket Word (Handheld PC), .tmd TextMaker 6.0 up to 2008, and .odt OpenDocument Text.
TextMaker Viewer provides a minimalistic interface where you can open any Word document either by browsing, or through easy drag and drop method. It lets you open documents in multiple windows, or export any of them to a PDF file. Moreover, you can zoom in or zoom out the document, search for any text within it, turn on horizontal rulers, or anytime switch to full-screen mode. You can also print a document if you want.
With all the amazing features listed above, this free Word Viewer is really useful and you should give it a try.
Works With: Windows
Price: Free
Download: Click here to download TextMaker Viewer 2010.
DocX Viewer:
DocX Viewer is another free Word Viewer that lets you open and view .DOCX files, when you don’t have Microsoft Word or any other word processing software on your system. It’s a handy and completely portable application which does not need to be installed on your system. You can take it anywhere in your pen drive, to easily read Word documents saved in latest Word document format. This application has been built keeping in mind specially those people who are still using the older version of Microsoft Word, and not able to read latest DOCX files. DocX Viewer allows such users to open and read these DOCX files, and even allows editing the document by letting them paste the document text to their old edition of Microsoft Word.
DocX Viewer is a convenient tool to open and read DOCX documents. It provides a minimalistic interface, which displays Word documents in their original layout. The only drawback it has is that it can not open any Word file, other than .DOCX file.
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Works With: Windows
Price: Free
Download: Click here to download DocX Viewer.
