I have a document that is Microsoft Word how do I print it on a computer that doesnt have Microsoft Word? -

I had to write a short essay for work. I did so on my laptop that has Microsoft word. The computer hooked up to the printer does not have Microsoft word and I need to print it out. How do I do this? Thanks~!

If you have access to another computer that has Word on it you can open in on that computer, go to file -gt; save as -gt; type in the name of the document -gt; choose a different file type (RTF is a good choice, both WordPad and Works wil read RTF) -gt; choose where you re going to save this new converted file (back onto your flash disk or floppy disk probably) and click save. Then you should be able to print that out from the other machine. You can also install OpenOffice from Sun. Link below (will take awhile, but can read AND write Word compatible docs).

You can t - at least not directly. You need to find out what word processing software is on the computer that is connected to the printer. Word might be able to save it in this format. If not, you can always save your essay as either plain text or rich text and then import it into the printer-connected program. PDF files can be used for this purpose too, but you need to have software to create the PDF. The Acrobat Reader won t do it.

You could download Open Office to the computer. Open Office is a free software package that has a word processing program like Word and spreadsheet program like Excel. Once you have that, you should be able to open the document there. If you right click on the file and choose open with. You may loose some of the formating. Other than that your best bet is to in the future save the word file as Rich Text and open it with notepad or wordpad on your computer.

the easiest and fastest way is for you to connect to the computer with the printer hooked up to it. convert to a text file, save to a media i.e. diskette, CD, flash drive, etc., open the file with the other computer with the printer and print away. another way, is to copy and paste the contents of the word document and paste it to a newly composed email and save as draft. then open the email using computer with printer.

I have to do this because I have a laptop w/ Microsoft 2007 and my parents have an outdaded computer with Word...so let me help! On Microsoft Word, save it as a differnt format by going to (1) File... (2) Save As... (3) Under format, choose PLAIN TEXT or RICH TEXT FORMAT, instead of Word document or w/e, (4) Save. And what I do, is email it to another email account and open it on the other computer. *Plain text can be opened by any program.

Either connect the laptop to the printer, OR, email the document to the computer connected to the printer as an attachment (or any other way you have to transfer files between PCs, floppy, flash drive etc.) and install Microsoft Word Viewer (free from Microsoft) and select print. It s a good idea to have Microsoft Word Viewer on the quot;printerquot; pc to avoid this in the future.

highlight all of the text rigt click somewhere on the highlighted text click copy open your e-mail click create new mail right click on the blank email click paste send it to your e-mail go to the computer open the email highlight all of the text rigt click somewhere on the highlighted text click copy open a notepad or wordpad or whatever right click on the blank document click paste click file click print hope i helped =]=]

Sun.com has a this free word program that open Microsoft Office programs and is totally free. Only for Windows right now. But you can actually go to microsoft.com and download the trial to open your file. You just have to have a Windows Live, hotmail account. Link provided below. http://download.openoffice.org/

You can convert to a PDF and then print it on the other computer as long as it has Acrobat Reader (which is free if the computer doesn t have it installed). Or you can install the print driver on your laptop and print from it also.

when you save it in the future, save it in Rich Text Format (.rtf). right before you click ok to save the document, move to the right and you ll see the save as file type thing. or you can copy and paste it to an email and send the email to yourself

Right click on the title, point to open with, click wordpad. You may have to click on other programs if wordpad is not on the drop down menu but it is in your computer.

u can print the word doc as pdf file (use cute pdf or something like that ) and use pdf file to print from the pc that don t have word. or u can get word viewer which allows u just to view doc files (and few others).

Go to all program/accessories. Try to use notepad or wordpad to open the files.

hook up that computer to the printer