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Important

The Microsoft Excel Viewer was retired in April, 2018. It is no longer available for download or receive security updates. To continue viewing Excel files for free, we recommend installing the Excel mobile app or storing documents in OneDrive or Dropbox, where Excel Online opens them in your browser. For the Excel mobile app, visit the store for your device:

Summary

The Microsoft Excel Viewer is a small, freely redistributable program that lets you view and print Microsoft Excel spreadsheets if you don't have Excel installed. In addition, the Excel Viewer can open workbooks that were created in Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh.

The Excel Viewer can open the latest version of Excel workbooks, but it will not display newer features.

More Information

The Microsoft Excel Viewer is the latest version of the viewer. It can read the file formats of all versions of Excel, and it replaces the Microsoft Excel Viewer 2003.

Other options for free viewing of Excel workbooks

  • Excel Online Excel Online is available through OneDrive or deployed as part of Microsoft SharePoint. Excel Online can view, edit and print Excel workbooks. For more information about Excel Online, see the Office Online overview.
  • Office 365 Trial Downloading the trial will give you access to the full capabilities of Microsoft Office 2013. For more information, see Office 365 Home.
  • Office Mobile applications Download the trial for mobile applications available on iPhone, Android phone, or Windows Phone. For more information, see Office on mobile devices.

Note

The Excel Viewer is available only as a 32-bit application. A 64-bit version of the Excel Viewer does not exist. Microsoft project plan for mac os. The 32-bit version of the Excel Viewer can be used on 64-bit versions of Windows.

The file name of the Excel Viewer is xlview.exe. The default folder location for the Excel Viewer on a 32-bit operating system isc:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12. The default folder location for the Excel Viewer on a 64-bit operating system is c:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice12.

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Note

If you already have a full version of Microsoft Excel installed on your computer, do not install Microsoft Excel Viewer in the same directory. Doing this causes file conflicts.

File formats supported

The Excel file formats supported are .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .xltx, .xltm, .xls, .xlt, .xlm, and .xlw. Macro-enabled files can be opened (.xlsm, .xltm, and .xlm), but the macros do not run.

Known issues with newer versions of Excel workbooks and the Excel Viewer

Even though the Excel Viewer can read the latest Excel workbooks, the following new features are not visible or are displayed differently in the Excel Viewer.

  • Sparklines are not shown in the Excel Viewer. The cells where they are located are blank.

  • PivotTables and PivotCharts are flattened. The data or chart will appear, but modifications cannot be made.

  • Macros do not run in the Excel Viewer.

  • Slicers do not display data in the Excel Viewer. Instead, a box is displayed in the location of the slicer and it contains the following text: 'This shape represents a slicer. Slicers are supported in Excel 2010 or later. If the shape was modified in an earlier version of Excel, or if the workbook was saved in Excel 2003 or earlier, the slicer cannot be used.'

If you have to view or use these features, use Excel Online.

Microsoft Word Viewer
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseMarch 17, 1999; 21 years ago (Word Viewer 97-2000)
Final release
v11.8169.8172 SP3 (Word Viewer 2007) / September 27, 2007; 12 years ago
Operating systemWindows 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows 7
Platformx86
Size24.5 MB
Available in36 languages[1]
English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Hong Kong SAR), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
TypeDocument viewer
LicenseFreeware

Microsoft Word Viewer is a discontinued freeware program for Microsoft Windows that can display and print Microsoft Word documents.[2] Word Viewer allows text from a Word document to be copied into clipboard and pasted into a word processor.[3] The last version made was compatible with Word 2007.

According to the license terms of the Microsoft Word Viewer, the software may be installed and used only to view and screen print documents created with Microsoft Office software. The software may not be used for any other purpose. Users may distribute the software only with a file created with Microsoft Office software to enable recipient to view and print the file.[4]

In November 29, 2017, Microsoft had announced that Word Viewer would be retired on that month, no longer receive security updates nor be available to download, and recommended using Office Online, Word Mobile, and Office desktop apps for viewing and printing documents free of charge.[5]Microsoft Office 2003 and newer versions are trialware and can also be used for viewing and printing during or after the trial period.

Format support[edit]

Microsoft Word Viewer supports:

  • binary Word documents (.doc)
  • Office Open XML documents (.docx, .docm)
  • Rich Text Format (.rtf)
  • Text files (.txt)
  • HTML (.htm, .html) and MHTML (.mht, .mhtml)
  • Word XML format (.xml)
  • WordPerfect v5.x and v6.x files (.wpd)
  • Microsoft Works documents (.wps)

For viewing Office Open XML documents, Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats must be installed.[2]

History[edit]

Word Viewer 97-2000 was released on 17 March 1999. It opens documents that are created with Word 97, Word 2000 and Word for Mac v4.x and later.[6] It was available for Windows in 16-bit and 32-bit versions. It can display Word documents in Internet Explorer 3.x and later.[3]

Word Viewer 2003 was released on 15 December 2004. It added support for Word 2002 and Word 2003.[citation needed]

Word Viewer 2007 was released on 26 September 2007. Combined with Office Compatibility Pack for Word, it supports Office Open XML document format found in Word 2007 and later.[1]

Development of the product has stopped ever since. In the meantime, Microsoft has made other ways of reading Office documents available, either through Word Online as well as WordPad (a native component of Windows) in Windows 7 and later, which can create, view or edit Office Open XML documents (.docx) alongside Rich Text Format (.rtf) and text files (.txt).[7][8]

No versions for any other operating system besides Windows were ever released.

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See also[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ ab'Word Viewer'. Download Center. Microsoft. 26 September 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  2. ^ ab'How to obtain the latest Word Viewer'. Support. Microsoft. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  3. ^ ab'Description of the Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000'. Support. Microsoft. 19 January 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  4. ^'LICENSE TERMS FOR MICROSOFT SOFTWARE - MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD VIEWER 2003'. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2016-12-23.
  5. ^'Word Viewer to be retired in November, 2017'. Office Updates. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  6. ^'Microsoft Word Viewer'. Helper applications. The Institution of Engineering and Technology. 20 October 2011. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  7. ^'Windows 7: The Top 10 Hidden Features'. PC Magazine. Ziff Davis. 30 September 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  8. ^'Using WordPad'. Windows portal. Microsoft. Retrieved 3 April 2013.

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