Viewing and downloading documents in Microsoft Word for Windows format

Headings on this page :

Introduction
Downloading a Word for Windows document
Viewing a Word for Windows document

1. Introduction

Some of the documents on the website are word-processed files stored in Microsoft's Word for Windows format. Their filenames have a doc extension/ending - such as "charities.doc".

In case you're not familiar with how to deal with these, we give below some hints and tips. You can print them out.

2. Downloading a Word for Windows document

This means copying the file (target) from our website (the source) to the hard drive on your computer (the destination). (You use the same method to download our Adobe Acrobat documents.) Do it as follows :

Place your mouse cursor over the link to the file (underlined)
Click the right-hand button on your mouse for a menu, then
Choose to save the file to your disk (choose Save Target As ... in Internet Explorer)
Select your choice of destination folder (where the file will be saved)
The file will be copied to your disk
View the file - see below.

3. Viewing a Word for Windows document

Click on the link to the file.

If you've got Microsoft Word on your computer - no problem. Word will run automatically.

If you haven't got Microsoft Word, your word processor may still be able to handle the file.

If not, you can still view the file as follows :

In Windows Explorer, right-click on the file's name and click QuickView - which will usually let you view the file, or
Visit www.microsoft.com and download the free viewer for Word for Windows (file size about 4MB).

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