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Charles Moore Reviews icWord 3.0
Many Mac users would prefer not to own Microsoft Word, either because of the hefty purchase price, due to various worm virus risks, bloat and/or bugginess of the application, or simply because they don’t want to support Microsoft. However, Word has become as close to a word processing standard as exists in the personal computer orbit, and most of us encounter Word documents “.doc” files) that we need to open fairly frequently. This is a familiar irritation to desktop publishers and graphic designers, who are often Mac enthusiasts working in a PC-oriented world. They are joined by an other Mac users who receive ‘.doc’ email attachments or download MS Word files from the Internet. The conventional solution to viewing Word files is to grit your teeth and purchase Word or MS Office. Another hope is that Word documents can be opened by filters supporting one’s installed Mac software. However, converted Word files often lose their formatting, creating extra work to reformat the original text. However, there is another, more graceful, and inexpensive solution: icWord, Israel-based Panergy Ltd.’s Microsoft Word viewer for the Mac that enables Mac users to open, view, and print Microsoft Word files- with the original formatting preserved- and without using a Microsoft product. icWord is ideal for any Mac user who wants to: 
icWord also helps you keep your Mac virus-free. When a virus is carried by a Word document, it is activated via a macro (a series of commands that automates tasks) embedded in the document. Because icWord does not execute any macros, you may use icWord without worrying about infection, even if the original Word document is a virus carrier. icWord enables you to work with Microsoft Word files created on both PCs and Macs -- open, view, print, decompress, and use Word files - without Word. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) functionality lets you see the original formatting, 
icWord is claimed to be the only “what you see is what you get” Word document viewer utility on the market today. Other solutions available, but they offer “text only” viewing, or force you to convert the file to another program. To use icWord just drag your file onto the icWord icon. icWord opens the file in an icWord window, and you will be able to view it, print it, copy its contents, or save it into other applications. Alternatively, you can double-click on icWord to open it, and then use the Open menu to open the desired file. You can also double-click on the file you want to view and select icWord from the dialog that is presented to you. icWord presents the entire contents of the original MS Word document, but the following are not WYSIWYG: You can see the text of a footnote by pointing at it. The text will appear in a bubble. You may also see it at the end of the text as numbered endnotes. You may want to give icWord a large memory partition when opening large documents. In Mac OS X most of the memory limitations have been removed, so you may have a document which does not open in Mac OS 9 but will open fine in Mac OS X. icWord opens Word XP, Word 2001, Word 2000, Word 98 for the Macintosh, Word 97, Word 7, Word 6, Word 5.1/5.0/4.0 for the Macintosh and Word 2. It also opens RTF and text files. You can access icWord’s viewing and searching tools in three different ways: • via the menu bar • via the toolbar • via the status bar at the bottom of the window to the left of the horizontal scrollbar. icWord lets you see the document in different sizes. You can scale your text to make it larger or smaller, or you can make it fit the page or the width of the screen. From the menu bar these facilities are available via the Tools/View menu item. You can find text you are looking for in three different ways. If your computer has sound capabilities, icWord will be able to read to you out loud the text of the Word file you are opening. You can also have icWord read only the jumpmarks to give you an idea of the content of the document. icWord lets you print the document that is displayed on the screen or copy it to other programs. All these capabilities are available from the File and Edit menus. You can select portions of text with the mouse within a single page. Once text has been selected, you can drag it or paste it into another program. All the selected text is copied as styled text, so that if the program into which you are pasting accepts styled text, all the characters’ styles, sizes and fonts will be preserved. However, paragraph ruler characteristics (justification, line spacing etc.) will not be retained. You can also select and copy pictures. To copy a whole page or a whole document, use the Edit/Copy Page or Edit/Copy Document commands. With these commands, you don’t need to select the text first. Just use the desired command and the text will be copied to the clipboard. 
icWord allows you to save your document as RTF, AppleWorks 5, AppleWorks 6, NisusWriter, Macintosh Text or Unicode Text. Open the document you want to save, in icWord, and use the File/Save As menu command from the menu toolbar. In the Save dialog box select the format of your choice with the Format pop-up menu. RTF (Rich Text Format) saves the text in a format that preserves all the text attributes (e.g. font, line spacing, styles, tabs, etc.) Use it for exporting text to other word processing programs. All versions of Microsoft Word understand RTF files so this is a good format to use when you want to send a document to Word users. Text document is Macintosh text, used in Simple Text and other programs. Styling information is not included. Unicode text document is used in Mac OS X and Windows 2000 and beyond as the native encoding. This is especially useful when you have text in non-Roman languages, including double-byte languages such as Japanese, etc. Here’s a Word document opened in icWord: 
And the same document saved as RTF (graphics are lost): 
Easy WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) functionality lets you see the original formatting, including: Dynamic viewing lets you: Open all these formats: Convert to: New in icWord 3.0 1. New Features icWord now: 2. Improvements System requirements: icWord comes with a complete, “Office Money Back” guarantee. If you purchase icWord and find - within the next 90 days - that you still need to purchase MS Word, Panergy will refund your icWord purchase price. This is a very handy little application that I found works as advertised. It beats paying $399 for Word. icWord is $19.95 demoware -- free 30-day trial For more information, visit: Also check out icExcel, which enables you to work with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets created on both PCs and Macs. With icExcel, you can open, view and print Excel and AppleWorks spreadsheets without installing Microsoft Excel on your computer. Also $19.95
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