One of the greatest problem with Microsoft Word is its compatibility. A document made in the lower version such as 2007 will not open in a higher version such as 2010. in such cases the document ha to be saved in compatible mode. Another problem is that Microsoft Word 2010 is not easily available and has to be bought from the market. Even if you download from the net it is the trial version. So to solve your problems we listed down few document viewers.
Free document viewers to view doc and docx files:
Word Reader, a free document viewer, is compatible with docx, doc, txt, html and rtf file formats. It offers you three modes for reading a file i.e., page view, read mode and full screen mode. Word Reader not only provides the functionality of a document viewer but also basic working of MS Word including search, scroll, zoom and works perfect with text files.
Apart from Word Reader we have Google Docs which is an extension of Google chrome. You can download it for free and this wont take up much of system resources too. Like the previous one it also supports many file formats such as doc, docx, pdf and ppt but the icing to the cake is its inability to view database while googling i.e., you can read your docx files in your Google Web Browser itself.
This acts as a very handy tools in cases when you do not have Microsoft Word installed in your system. It is not only free but is very simple and does not have to be upgraded like MS Word. Like MS Word it is also compatible with doc, docx, dotx and many other file formats.
If you use the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint then you already have an access to Word Viewer which allows viewing, ptinting and copying from another program but not opeing, saving or creating a new document. Word Viewer supports the following file formats: Word Document (.docx), Word Macro-Enabled Document (.docm), Rich Text Format (.rtf), Text (.txt), WordPerfect 5.x (.wpd), WordPerfect 6.x (.doc, .wpd), Works 6.0 (.wps), Works 7.0 (.wps) and XML (.xml).
