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Free MS Word Compatible Viewers

There are limited programs which will at least display Word documents and there is a chance one of these might open a corrupt Word document.

Name - Word 2003 Viewer

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2 out of 5 - Predicted quality and likelihood of recovery. 4 out of 5 - Predicted speed of data recovery if successful.

Download URL - Word 2003 Viewer

Developer - Microsoft

OS - Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP

File Size - 12020 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - MS Word 2003/2002/2000/97

Developer Provided Description - "Word Viewer 2003 lets you open Word 2003 documents and documents created with all previous versions of Microsoft Word for Windows and Microsoft Word for Macintosh. In addition to Word document files (.doc), you can also open files saved in the following formats: 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)."

Comment - According to Microsoft occasionally corrupt Word files will open here too.

Name - Columbus Viewer

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2 out of 5 - Predicted quality and likelihood of recovery. 2 out of 5 - Predicted speed of data recovery if successful.

Download URL - Columbus

Developer - Oasys

OS - Windows2000/XP

File Size - 38Mb

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Microsoft Office XP, AutoCAD 2004/2005/2006, Microstation V8 and Hewlett Packard HPGL/2

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Comment - Also try the free Personal Version of the Columbus Viewer. Be sure to try to view it by right clicking on the file and choosing "view," rather than double clicking on the file as this will simply open the normal application associated with the file rather than the Columbus Native Viewer.

Name - antiword

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2 out of 5 - Predicted quality and likelihood of recovery. 2 out of 5 - Predicted speed of data recovery if successful.

Download URL - antiword-0_36- Windows.zip ( Windows port)

Developer - Adri van Os

OS - RISC OS, Linux/UNIX versions, FreeBSD, BeOS, OS/2, Mac OS X, Amiga, VMS, NetWare, Plan9, EPOC, Zaurus, DOS, Windows

File Size - 234 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems - Word 2/6/7/97/2000/2002/2003

Developer Provided Description - "Microsoft® Word only exists on platforms supported by Microsoft itself. On other platforms, reading Microsoft® Word files is usually difficult, sometimes expensive and often impossible.
I am busy writing a Microsoft® Word reader for Linux and RISC OS. This Microsoft® Word reader is called Antiword for reasons explained in the documentation. Antiword is a work in progress and many features are still being developed. However, Antiword is usable on all but the most complex Word documents."

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