[ale] MS Word viewer

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 13 September 2004 10:37 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > What's the best way to VIEW MS Word Documents on linux (Gentoo, KDE)? 
> > Please refrain from the various snide remarks. Some corporations are just
> > slow to change :)
>
> OpenOffice or cxoffice (which would require an M$ office license).
> There used to be a word viewer for Linux, but I don't recall seeing it
> of late.

I would amend that.  cxoffice and MSWordView work great. without any MS Office 
license required.  It won't let you edit, but the request was for a way to 
view.

If you want to edit, I agree with Jim: OpenOffice is first choise, abiword is 
second.

Michael