Microsoft Word Viewer version 6.0 for Windows
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Microsoft(R) proudly announces the release of Microsoft Word Viewer, a
small application that enables users who do not own Microsoft Word for
Windows(R) to view and print Word documents exactly as they appear in Word.
Word Viewer gives users the flexibility to view page layout, zoom, outline,
headers/footers, footnotes, and annotations. Word Viewer allows you to read
and print Word documents, but it does not allow you to edit them, although
you can copy information from the document and activate OLE objects.

Thanks to Word Viewer, people who own any version of Microsoft Word for
Windows, or Word for the Macintosh(R) versions 4.0 and later, can now share
their documents with users who do not own Microsoft Word. Compressed, Word
Viewer fits onto one 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy disk. We encourage users to copy
Word Viewer freely and distribute it to friends and co-workers along with
documents they have created in Word format.

Use Word Viewer to view Word documents posted on the Internet
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This product also allows users who wish to post richly formatted Word
documents on the Internet to share such documents with people who might not
own Microsoft Word. In order to use this product for viewing Word documents
on the Internet, you must configure your Internet browsing tool to
recognize Word Viewer as a helper application. Please consult the owner's
manual of your browsing software in order to learn how to achieve this.
Documents with the suffix ".doc" will be recognized by Word Viewer as Word
files.

Microsoft Word Viewer is Freeware!
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This product is "freeware". Users are encouraged to copy and distribute
Word Viewer to friends and co-workers, or post it onto public electronic
bulletin boards.

While Word Viewer allows you to view and print Word documents using the
look and feel of Microsoft Word, the retail version of Microsoft Word
contains all the award winning document creation and editing features that
make everyday word processing tasks easier. If you do not own Microsoft
Word and would like to join the 21 million users who have made it the
world's best selling word processor, please contact Microsoft Sales
Information Center at 1-800-426-9400 for pre-sales information in the US,
or contact your local Microsoft subsidiary.

Obtaining and Installing Microsoft Word Viewer
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Word Viewer is available from any of the sources listed below in the
"Sources for Word Viewer" section. To obtain Word Viewer, download
WORDVU.EXE into an empty directory. WORDVU.EXE is a compressed, self-
extracting file. After you download WORDVU.EXE, run it to extract the files
it contains. Read the INSTALL.TXT, then run WV.EXE to decompress and setup
Word Viewer files.

For additional help on using Word Viewer, further information can be found
in the accompanying file README.DOC, located in the same directory as Word
Viewer. To view this file after installation, run Word Viewer, click on the
file README.DOC in the File Open dialog, and then click on the OK button.

Distributing Word Viewer
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If you are posting Word Viewer to a WWW home page please post both the
WORDVU.EXE and this file, WORDVU.HTM. (If you are posting to a non-Web
electronic service, please use the equivalent WORDVU.TXT file available
from any of the non-Web sites referenced below.)

If you choose to give Word Viewer to anyone on a floppy disk, copy WV.EXE
and INSTALL.TXT, rather than copying each of the individual files that
appear after Word Viewer decompresses. Word Viewer's self-extracting
archive achieves both decompression and installation. Simply copying the
product files to another computer may not install Word Viewer properly.
Also, you will find that WV.EXE and INSTALL.TXT will fit onto an empty
formatted 3.5" HD Disk, while all the decompressed product files will not.

System Requirements for using Word Viewer
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*    A personal computer with an 80386 or higher microprocessor
*    4 MB of memory (6 MB recommended)
*    3 MB of hard disk space (6 MB free for installation only)
*    MS-DOSĀ® operating system version 3.0 or later
*    Microsoft Windows operating system version 3.1 or later
*    Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

Technical support for Word viewer is limited to a technical white paper
which is available via FastTips, on Library 2 in the MSWORD forum on
CompuServe(R), and on Microsoft World Wide Web server.

Sources for Word Viewer
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World Wide Web:
     Word Viewer is available under the "What's New" heading on the Home
     Page of Microsoft's World Wide Web server. Microsoft's Home Page can
     be accessed at the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
     http://www.microsoft.com/ by anyone who is connected to the Internet.

Microsoft Download Service (MSDL):
     If you have a modem, you can obtain Word Viewer from Microsoft
     Download Service (MSDL), which you can reach by calling (206) 936-6735
     (936-MSDL). MSDL is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The
     highest download speed available is 14,400 bits per second (bps). For
     more information about using the MSDL, call 1-800-936-4100 and follow
     the prompts.

CompuServe, GEnie(R), and Microsoft OnLine:
     Word Viewer is located in the Microsoft Software Library. The file
     name is WORDVU.EXE (WORDVU.EXE is also available in Library 2 of the
     MSWORD forum on CompuServe).

The Internet:
     On the Internet, Word Viewer is located on Microsoft anonymous ftp
     server, which you can reach by typing "ftp ftp.microsoft.com" (without
     the quotation marks) at the ">" command prompt. The file is located in
     the /SOFTLIB/MSLFILES subdirectory (notice that this path uses a
     forward slash [/] instead of a backslash [\] character). To download
     the file, type the following commands, pressing ENTER after each line
     (the UNIX operating system is case sensitive):

          cd /SOFTLIB/MSLFILES

          bi

          get WORDVU.EXE

     Note: The "bi" command changes the download protocol to binary. By
     default, Microsoft server downloads in ASCII mode. If you download
     Word Viewer in ASCII mode, it will be a corrupt file.

Microsoft Order Desk:
     To obtain Word Viewer by mail, call Microsoft Order Desk at (800) 360-
     7561. There is a shipping and handling charge for the product. If you
     are outside the United States, contact Microsoft subsidiary for your
     area. To locate your subsidiary, call Microsoft International Customer
     Service at (206) 936-8661. If you obtain Word Viewer on disk the
     WV.EXE and INSTALL.TXT files are available directly, rather than
     compressed in the downloadable WORDVU.EXE file.