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Viewing and downloading files
Microsoft Word Documents
Word documents will open automatically if you have Microsoft Office installed. If you are using Windows then they should also open automatically using WordPad (included with Windows). Mac users can use Appleworks (included free with some systems). Alternatively you can use these freely available products:
Word Viewer 2003 lets you open Word 2003 documents
and documents created with all previous versions of Microsoft Word.
(Windows 2000 and XP)
Download free here
OpenOffice is a free open source office suite that
can open and edit Word documents (available for Windows, Mac, Linux).
Download free here.
AbiWord, a free word processor that can open and
edit Word documents (available for Windows, Mac, Linux)
Download free
here.
Ajax Write, is a free online word processor that can
open and edit Word documents (requires a Mozilla web browser such as
Firefox)
Open
here.
Adobe PDF Documents (Portable Document Format)
Adobe Reader is a free download that will open and
print PDF documents (available for Windows, Mac, Linux)
Download free here
Foxit is a free reader for PDF documents (available
for Windows) .
Download free here
PDF Viewer is a free reader for PDF documents
(available for Mac OS X 10.2 or higher)
Download free here
Calculating download time
Use this tool to caculate the time required to download a file, according to the type of internet connection you have. Just type in the file size below and click KB, MB or GB for the file size.
Please note that the speed may vary due to server's capacity and set-up, current Internet traffic, the your hardware or operating system, or the amount of people sharing the line (dial-up and cable) at the time of connection.
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