Microsoft is proud to announce Microsoft® Word Viewer for Windows®95 Version 7.1, a tool that enables Microsoft Word users to share their documents with more people than ever before! Microsoft Word Viewer is a small no-charge, freely distributable program that lets people view and print Word for Windows (version 1.0 and greater) and Word for the Macintosh® (versions 4.0 and greater) documents. Microsoft Word Viewer gives users the flexibility to view documents in Page Layout view, Outline view, Header/Footer view, and to display footnotes and annotations. Word Viewer does not allow you to edit files; however, it does allow you to copy information from a document and activate OLE objects from within Microsoft Word Viewer.
Word Viewer 7.1 is built to automatically configure itself as a Helper Application for Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer (it can also be manually configured as Helper Application for other browsing tools). This allows users to automatically view Word documents (.doc) that are linked to HTML pages on a LAN or the WWW.
Word Viewer by itself can follow document hyperlinks on a LAN. This new capability allows you to browse rich document systems on a LAN in much the same way a Web browser allows you to navigate the Internet. If you activate a document hyperlink to a WWW site, or service, Viewer starts any major Web browsing tool that you have installed. The browser then follows the hyperlink onto the Web.
Word Viewer for Windows 95 Version 7.0 is available on the CD-ROM version of Windows 95. (It is not distributed on the Windows 95 floppy disks.) On the CD-ROM, Word Viewer is located in the Other\Wordview folder. Please note: Word Viewer 7.0 does not allow users to follow Hyperlinks, nor does it automatically configure itself as a Helper Application for Netscape and Mosaic.
Word Viewer 7.1 is available for download from several online information services, listed above under "Sources for Word Viewer." To obtain Word Viewer, download Wd95vw71.exe and place it in an empty folder on your hard disk. Wd95vw71.exe is a compressed, self-extracting file. After you download Wd95vw71.exe, run it to extract the files it contains and automatically begin the Setup process.
For setup instructions click here to read Install.txt.
For additional information on using Word Viewer, see Readme.doc, located in the same directory as Word Viewer. To view this file, run Word Viewer, select the folder where you installed Word Viewer in the "Open" dialog box, click Readme.doc, and click OK.
Word Viewer for Windows 95 Version 7.0 ONLY, is available on the CD-ROM version of Windows 95. (It is not distributed on the Windows 95 floppy disks.) On the CD-ROM, Word Viewer is located in the Other\Wordview folder.
The README.DOC in the Word Viewer folder contains an extensive list of online sources for Technical Support information.
Microsoft also offers Word Viewer support on the standard Word for Windows Product Support Services phone line, at (206) 462-9673.
(File Name:wd95vw71.exe, Size: 2.2MB, Download Time: 1 hour at 9600bps)
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