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dave-dave - Jul 31, 2006 - 11:47 pm

I do not have Microsoft Word, or any of Microsoft's products. I have Mac OS X 10.2.8
Is there any way I can open up a .Doc file? Without Microsoft Products?

Thanks,
Dave

philippe99 - Aug 1, 2006 - 3:45 am

Hi and welcome to macosx.com

Yes, you can.

* OpenOffice 1.1 (in your case, because you're still on Jaguar) can do it
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/s...s_reqs_11.html

* NeoOfice is a Java based clone of OpenOffice
http://neowiki.sixthcrusade.com/index.php/NeoOffice

* Abiword is a Word compatible word processor
http://www.abisource.com/support/require/


On the other hand, now, most of the commercial Word competitor (NisusWriter, Mellel, MarinerWrite, ..) handle correctly Word documents, but they need Panther OS at least

Regards
Philippe

dave-dave - Aug 1, 2006 - 11:22 am

Thanks,
Now I can actually get some work done.

Dave

philippe99 - Aug 1, 2006 - 12:16 pm

Ah, yes, as another tech says to me: TexEdit can also open Word documents with formatting.

Sorry for forgetting this but I use NisusWriter as word processor and the spreadsheet feature of Openoffice (or Excel), so I never try to open .doc with textedit

Good luck
And thank you for using macosx.com
Regards
Philippe