Utilities

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

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Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 97 for PowerPoint 97, 2000, and 2002 Users

This download is for users who don't have Microsoft PowerPoint; it allows them to view PowerPoint 95, 97, 2000, and 2002 presentations.

The PowerPoint Viewer 97 allows people who use PowerPoint to share their presentations with people who do not have PowerPoint installed on their computers. When you post presentations on the Internet, you can include the PowerPoint Viewer to expand your online audience to people who might not have PowerPoint, or to those with different versions. You can use this viewer to view files created in both PowerPoint for Windows and PowerPoint for the Macintosh.

Notes

• You can view and print presentations, but you cannot edit them in the PowerPoint Viewer.
• The PowerPoint Viewer supports all PowerPoint 97 and PowerPoint 95 features.
• Some PowerPoint 2000 and 2002 features are not supported by the viewer:
  • Picture bullets
  • Automatic numbering
  • Animated GIF pictures
  • Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) controls
  • ActiveX controls

Instructions for Use

If you are creating a presentation, install this viewer and use Microsoft PowerPoint as you normally would. If you want to open a presentation but do not have PowerPoint, double-click the presentation file. The presentation will start.

Microsoft Word 97/2000 Viewer (Word 2000) (Windows 95/98/NT)

This program allows users who don't have Word to open and view Word 2000 documents.

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With the Microsoft Word Viewer 97/2000, Microsoft Word users can share documents with those who do not have Word and users without Word can open and view Word documents. This product also allows users who wish to post rich-formatted Word documents on the Internet to expand their online audience to people who might not have Word. This viewer also allows users to view and print documents created in the Word native file format, even if they do not have Word. Users are allowed to zoom, outline, or view page layout, headers/footers, footnotes, and annotations.

Word Viewer 97/2000 includes the following features:

• Online Layout View for easy reading of online documents, including those with background colors and textures
• Document Map for point-and-click navigation through longer documents
• Hyperlink navigation to open any hyperlink in a document with your installed browser

The viewer does not allow users to edit files. However, it allows them to copy information from a document to other applications.

Microsoft Word Viewer 97/2000 will follow hyperlinks located in Word documents. Word Viewer 97/2000 is built to automatically configure itself as a Helper Application for Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. This allows users to automatically view Word documents that are linked to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) pages on a LAN or on the Web in the user's default Web browser. Word Viewer by itself can follow document hyperlinks on a LAN. This new capability allows users to browse rich document systems on a LAN in much the same way a Web browser allows you to explore the Internet.

Instructions for Use

Go to the folder where you installed the Word Viewer, and run WordView.exe. The program will prompt you for a Word document to load.

Windows Media Player

With Windows Media Player, you can play CDs and DVDs, create your own CDs, listen to radio stations, search for and organize digital media files, and copy files to a portable device.

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WinZip

WinZip brings the convenience of Windows to the use of Zip files and other compression formats. The optional wizard interface makes zipping and unzipping easier than ever. WinZip features built-in support for CAB files and for popular Internet file formats such as TAR, gzip, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME. ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs. WinZip interfaces to most virus scanners.

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