Talk:Microsoft Word Viewer

First paragraph and license

In order to edit viewed documents it is necessary to copy text to the clipboard and paste into an alternative editor.

The sentence above in the first paragraph seems to be contradictory with the license language for current wordview_en-us.exe, Microsoft Office Word Viewer (11.8169.8172) SP3.

1. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. a. General. You may install and use any number of copies of the software on your devices. You may use the software only to view and print files created with Microsoft Office software. You may not use the software for any other purpose.

That is, we can only use the software for "view and print" and "not any other purpose", that seems to include "cut&paste". Did I read that right? --sabre23t (talk) 10:20, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

It sounds like you read it right. To complicate things, the WORDVU.TXT file accompanying the older Microsoft Word Viewer Version 6.0 says "you can copy information from the document", so this has probably changed over time. DCOShea (talk) 11:17, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

2007 version

Seems that it doesn`t exist, the download link says it`s 2007, but installs 2003 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.120.54.49 (talk) 09:56, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Older versions

The "Microsoft Software Library" on ftp.microsoft.com also included:

   February 20		S15820	WD95VW71.EXE	Microsoft Word Viewer Version 7.1 (Freeware)

   March 24		S15819	WORDVU.TXT	Microsoft Word Viewer Version 6.0 (Overview)

   March 20		S15496	WORDVU.EXE	Microsoft Word Viewer Version 6.0 (Freeware)

These can be found in https://archive.org/details/ftp.microsoft.com The first version and initial release date are therefore incorrect.

DCOShea (talk) 11:17, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Also, Windows 95 CD-ROMs included what the setup program refers to as "Microsoft Word Viewer for Windows95", but the program's "About" dialog box refers to as "Microsoft Word Viewer Version 7.0". DCOShea (talk) 09:50, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Done. Yuhong (talk) 23:09, 7 March 2021 (UTC)