Another CS6 program open indesign files?

Can another program in CS6 open indesign files to read them?  We have a user who only needs to look at her employees' work and not edit it, we don't want to purchase the master collection or indesign seperately if we can avoid it.  Thank you!

InCopy is a tool used by writers, editors, and copyeditors in publication workflows. It is best used as a tool for editing copy, but if you want you can use it to preview documents. If the document doesn't open in Layout mode automatically, you can view it by changing the tab near the top of your screen.

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