Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Files (PDF file extensions)
- For Windows - Adobe Acrobat Reader (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh - Adobe Acrobat Reader (Outside Source)
Microsoft Word Files (DOC file extensions)
- For Windows - Microsoft Word Viewer (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* - Word Documents can be opened with Appleworks (currently shipped with OS X)
- For Macintosh* and Windows - OpenOffice (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* and Windows - Google Documents (Outside Source)
Microsoft Excel (for XLS file extensions)
- For Windows - Microsoft Excel Viewer (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* - Excel Spreadsheets can be opened with Appleworks (currently shipped with OS X)
- For Macintosh* and Windows - OpenOffice (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* and Windows - Google Documents (Outside Source)
Microsoft Powerpoint (for PPT file extensions)
- For Windows - Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer 2007 (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* and Windows - OpenOffice (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* and Windows - Google Documents (Outside Source)
Microsoft Windows Media (for WMV file extensions)
- For Windows - Microsoft Windows Media Player (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* - Flip4Mac and Microsoft Windows Media Player (Outside Source)
- Instructions to Display Captions in Windows Media Player
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Content (for news feeds)
For detailed information about RSS, visit CDE RSS Description and Help.
- Feedreader (Outside Source)
- FeedDemon (Outside Source)
- Google Reader (Outside Source)
- Using Microsoft Internet Explorer to access RSS (Outside Source)
* Note: Microsoft does not have free Macintosh viewers for Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.