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Viewers are safer and more secure than the Office applications because they cannot run scripts or save files. Most Office viruses use built in scripting. As an example, the classic Word virus makes an unfriendly change to the Word Normal.dot template. Word Viewer ignores Word scripting and isn't capable of saving, modifying, or deleting files. As such, there is little chance of trouble when viewed with Word Viewer. The Viewers are smaller and simpler programs so their able to start up and show a document much faster than a full blown Microsoft Office application can. As a bonus, the Viewers are free of charge and take up allot less disk space. :D Word Viewer 2003 : 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) With Word Viewer 2003, you can view, print, and copy document contents to another program. However, you cannot edit an open document, save a document, or create a new document. Excel Viewer 2003 : With Excel Viewer 2003, you can open, view, and print Excel workbooks, even if you don't have Excel installed. You can also copy data from Excel Viewer 2003 to another program. However, you cannot edit data, save a workbook, or create a new workbook. This download is a replacement for Excel Viewer 97 and all previous Excel Viewer versions. PowerPoint Viewer 2007 : PowerPoint Viewer 2007 lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions. This viewer also supports opening password-protected Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. You can view and print presentations, but you cannot edit them in the PowerPoint Viewer 2007. Office File Converter Pack : The Office File Converter Pack provides file converters and image filters for Microsoft Office programs, from Office 97 to Office 2003. These additional converters and filters are for older or seldom used documents or image formats. The Office File Converter Pack supersedes all previously released versions of the Office Converter Pack. Note: This converter pack does not enable the conversion of the new Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 file formats. To convert the new file formats you must download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for 2007 Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint File Formats. Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats : By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. The Compatibility Pack can also be used in conjunction with the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new formats. Word 2007 and Excel 2007 File formats : Microsoft Office Word 2007 • Microsoft Office Word 2007 document (*.docx) • Microsoft Office Word 2007 macro-enabled document (*.docm) Microsoft Office Excel 2007 • Microsoft Office Excel 2007 binary workbook (*.xlsb) • Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbook (*.xlsx) • Microsoft Office Excel 2007 macro-enabled workbook (*.xlsm) • Microsoft Office Excel 2007 template (*.xltx) • Microsoft Office Excel 2007 macro-enabled template (*.xltm) • Microsoft Office Excel 2007 add-in (*.xlam) Getting the software : You can easily download the viewers and converter packs from the Microsoft download center here is a list of all the software needed. Word Viewer 2003 : File Name: wdviewer.exe Download Size: 11.7 MB Excel Viewer 2003 : File Name: xlviewer.exe Download Size: 9.9 MB PowerPoint Viewer 2007 : File Name: PowerPointViewer.exe Download Size: 25.8 MB Office File Converter Pack : File Name: OCONVPCK.EXE Download Size: 1.7 MB Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack : File Name: FileFormatConverters.exe Download Size: 27.5 MB Instalation : This is from a clean Wine configuration directory and all screenshots are from a virtual desktop of 1024x768. Wine first run : tom@tom:~$ winecfg wine: creating configuration directory '/home/tom/.wine'... fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer supports MIDI in. Not yet supported. wine: '/home/tom/.wine' created successfully. Installing word 2003 viewer : tom@tom:~$ wine wdviewer.exe Word 2003 EULA  Install directory  Instalation complete  Installing excel 2003 viewer : tom@tom:~$ wine xlviewer.exe Excel 2003 EULA  Install directory  Instalation complete  Installing PowerPoint 2007 viewer : tom@tom:~$ wine PowerPointViewer.exe PowerPoint 2007 EULA  Instalation complete  Installing File Converter Pack : tom@tom:~$ wine oconvpck.exe Office converter pack EULA  Instalation complete  Installing Office Compatibility Pack : tom@tom:~$ wine FileFormatConverters.exe Office Compatibility Pack EULA  Instalation complete  Executing the viewers The installers created menu entries for the viewers for me but incase there was a problem we will run them from the command line here. It's now time to see if all this work has payed off. :D PowerPoint Viewer 2007 : tom@tom:~$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office12 tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12$ wine pptview.exe fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f760,0x00000000), stub! fixme:commdlg:GetFileName95 Flags 0x00800000 not yet implemented fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33ea64,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33e984,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33e948,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Parent is HWND_MESSAGE fixme:commdlg:GetFileName95 Flags 0x00800000 not yet implemented tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12$ PowerPoint 2007 EULA once more  Choose a file  View the slide    Word Viewer 2003 : tom@tom:~$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/OFFICE11 tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/OFFICE11$ wine wordview.exe fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE) fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0x1003a, 0x146318): stub fixme:imm:ImmGetProperty (IGP_CONVERSION) fixme:imm:ImmGetProperty IGP_SENTENCE) fixme:imm:ImmGetDefaultIMEWnd (0x10026 - (nil) 0x146318 ): semi-stub etc. etc............ You will also notice some richedit fixme notices. fixme:richedit:RichEditWndProc_common EM_SETBIDIOPTIONS: stub fixme:richedit:RichEditWndProc_common EM_GETLANGOPTIONS: stub As a workaround you can install the richedit30 update and these notices will be resolved. Go to the system32 directory and rename richedit20.dll and richedit32.dll to .bak and then install the richedit30 update. After the install run winecfg and set richedit20.dll and richedit32.dll as native windows dlls. Choose a file  MS .doc file  RTF file  About Word Viewer  Excel Viewer 2003 : tom@tom:~$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/OFFICE11 tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/OFFICE11$ wine xlview.exe fixme:imm:ImmGetDefaultIMEWnd (0x10026 - (nil) 0x125008 ): semi-stub fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance Untranslated charset 255 fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance Untranslated charset 255 fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance Untranslated charset 255 fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance Untranslated charset 255 fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance Untranslated charset 255 fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33d734,0x00000000), stub! etc. etc............ Choose a file  Microsoft .xls file  About Excel Viewer  Notes : There are some rather nasty imm32.dll bugs that are not yet resolved that effect both the Word and Excel viewers. With the three PowerPoint slides that I have the Power Point Viewer worked perfect and no problems accured at any time. I have not tried any of the Word 2007 or Excel 2007 File formats yet, if someone here has any files saved in these formats please give them a try and let us know your results. 
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