Opening microsoft word attachments on my new macbookpro

Do I need to have microsoft word in order to open yahoo email attachments created in microsoft word? or will mac OS X version 10.5.1 read it? I hate to have to have it on my computer as the only thing we would use it for would be to open these files emailed to us. any answers?
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Fortuny wrote:
Hi and welcome to Discussions,
TextEdit (found in /Applications) is capable of opening most of the MS-Word .doc files.
However if the files were created with MS-Word version 2007 you can download and install NeoOffice http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
Regards
Stefan
Actually, Leopard's TextEdit can open Word 2007 (.docx) documents as well. Of course, NeoOffice has more features than TextEdit, if editing the document is needed. However, in that case, I recommend not re-saving the document in Word 2007 format, as NeoOffice's Word 2007 import/export filters aren't as reliable as its Word 97/2000/XP (regular .doc) filters, for example.

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