Microsoft Word Viewer

SUMMARY

Microsoft Word Viewer is a free program that allows users who do not own Microsoft Word to view and print documents that were created in Word. Documents created in Word have extensions of .doc or .rtf.

You cannot edit a document in Word Viewer; however, you can copy text to the Clipboard to paste it in other applications. 

Click at right to download the Word Viewer. Wd97vw32.exe

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Word Viewer 97-2000 for Windows 95, Windows NT and XP

System Requirements for Word Viewer 97-2000

• A personal computer with a 486 or higher processor.
• Microsoft Windows 95 operating system or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation operating system 3.51 or later.
• 4 megabytes (MB) of memory for Windows 95 (8 MB recommended).
• 12 MB of memory for Windows NT Workstation.
• 7 MB of hard disk space (9 MB free for installation only).
• VGA or higher resolution graphics card.
• Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device.

Installing Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000

Download Wd97vw32.exe from above and place it in an empty folder on your hard disk. Wd97vw32.exe is a compressed, self-extracting file. After you download Wd97vw32.exe, run it to install Word Viewer.

To install Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000, you must have the file Wd97vw32.exe on your LAN or local hard drive. Close all other applications and ensure that you are not running any utilities or virus protection programs. In Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 or the Windows NT 3.51 File Manager, double-click the Word Viewer icon. This runs an unpack utility that extracts the Word Viewer 97-2000 distribution files and starts the Word Viewer 97-2000 Setup program. Follow these instructions to complete the installation.

1. Word Viewer 97-2000 Setup prompts you for a folder in which to install.
   
   The default folder location for Word Viewer 97-2000 is \Program Files\Wordview (C:\WordView on Windows NT 3.51).
2. After choosing the folder location for Word Viewer, click Install to install Word Viewer.
3. If Word Viewer Setup detects Word for Windows (version 6.0 or later) on your system, it prompts you to determine which application should open Word documents by default. For example, the default application is used to open files with .doc file extensions when you double-click them in Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or in the Windows NT 3.51 File Manager.

Important

Choosing Open with Word means that Word is used by default to open Word files. Choosing Open with Viewer means that Word Viewer is used by default to open Word files. If you select this option, you cannot use Word as your e-mail editor or edit Word document objects. However, you can view Word document objects.

To restore Word as the default Word document handler, you must uninstall Word Viewer as described below and then start Word so that it can restore its registry information.

Uninstalling Word Viewer

To remove Word Viewer from your system, start Word Viewer Setup as described above and then click Remove All. After the uninstall is complete, start Word to restore its settings.