Word Reader is one such free tool which is quite nice and fast alternative word document reader which can open any word document in it.
It can open Microsoft Word 2007(docx document), Microsoft Word 97-2003(doc document), Hyper Text Markup Language (Htm, Html), Plain Text Format (*.txt), Rich Text Format(RTF), Plain Text Format(TXT).
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