Adobe - View and print millions of documents on the Web with the free Adobe? Acrobat? Reader.
Java - is a free software program that allows you to run applications called "applets" written in the Java programming language. These applets allow you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D. Corporations also use applets for intranet applications and e-business solutions. You may need Java to take some tests online in Blackboard.
QuickTime - "The free QuickTime Player is an application for playing, interacting with, or viewing any video, audio, VR, or graphics file that is compatible with QuickTime. This includes MPEG-4, the new standard for digital media, new in QuickTime 6." (Apple Web site)
Macromedia's Shockwave, Flash and Authorware Player - plug-ins let you experience automation and entertainment in your Web browser. The new Shockwave 7 provides auto-updating of the player.
Windows Media Player - supports Windows Media (WMA,ASF), MP3, WAV, MIDI, AVI, and other formats.
Real Player - online audio and video content.
Viewers
Microsoft Office is the college standard software here at Vincennes University and may be required to view and transfer files to and from your instructor. If you do not have Microsoft Office installed on your computer, you will need to download one, or more, of the following viewers. Be aware these are viewers and will not allow you to save or edit documents. You may need to purchase Microsoft Office Suite in order to sucessfully complete your course
PowerPoint Viewer- PowerPoint Viewer 2003 lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions. This viewer also supports opening password-protected Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. You can view and print presentations, but you cannot edit them in the PowerPoint Viewer 2003.
Excel Viewer- With Excel Viewer 2003, you can open, view, and print Excel workbooks, even if you don't have Excel installed. You can also copy data from Excel Viewer 2003 to another program. However, you cannot edit data, save a workbook, or create a new workbook
Word Viewer - Word Viewer 2003 lets you open Word 2003 documents and documents created with all previous versions of Microsoft Word for Windows? and Microsoft Word for Macintosh. In addition to Word document files (.doc), you can also open files saved in the following formats:
- Rich Text Format (.rtf)
- Text (.txt)
- Web Page formats (.htm, .html, .mht, .mhtml)
- WordPerfect 5.x (.wpd)
- WordPerfect 6.x (.doc, .wpd)
- Works 6.0 (.wps)
- Works 7.0 (.wps)
- XML (.xml)
With Word Viewer 2003, you can view, print, and copy document contents to another program. However, you cannot edit an open document, save a document, or create a new document.
Open Office Suite- OpenOffice is a multi-platform and multi-lingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. This product is a possible alternative to Microsoft, however we do not offer technical support or recommend using it in place of Microsoft.
