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icWord 2.1, icExcel 1.1
$19.95 each and/or $29.95 the pair; free 30-day trial period -- Panergy Ltd
Sometimes the small and unambitious and the most simply-presented products are the best: these latest versions of Mac conversion specialists Panergy's translator-viewing tools allow you to read and use the ubiquitous Word and Excel files (most current Microsoft versions for Mac and PC) on your Mac (any OS) without having to compromise it by installing the original, buggy and bloated MicroSoft applications. These little utilities also work with AppleWorks and -- if you have the supporting hard and software -- will "speak" the resulting text to you.
By either dragging the document you receive from a PC or Mac "Office" user onto the icWord or icExcel icon in the Mac Finder and/or running either utility in the usual way and "Opening" the alien document from icWord's or icExcel's own menus, you can view, print, copy to paste and perform (mostly format-related: column and row size, hiding columns and font settings etc.) operations on the resulting file -- including a subsequent save as an AppleWorks, RTF or text file to share the file in industry-standard format. Because neither utility runs macros users are not exposed to Word (or Excel) macro viruses.
These are well thought-out utilities with neat, uncluttered interfaces and a business-like set of processes to achieve their results reliably. They are simple in function and use: the Preferences, for example, allow infinite control over such features as the number of Recent Documents in the relevant format, the format of the export, font control (both work in a number of non-European languages) and delimiters during import as well as whether to ignore which unsupported objects (eg an inline chart) native to the source file; these can be indicated by "Placeholders."
Jumpmarks
In addition to useful searching tools, "Jumpmarks" allow you to go right to a named point in the document for ease of use and later reference. In common with the rest of these nifty little utilities, this worked well during testing and made simple viewing, manipulation and management of documents in these formats straightforward and easy to accomplish. Without the greater degree of flexibility and customization of the four times as expensive Dataviz MacLink and associated products, icWord and icExcel will probably do 75% of what you want the next time you are sent a file in the ubiquitous foreign format. Recommended.
