Sharing Word Documents, Excel, etc

My wife and I have moved over from windows to Mac. We both have the iMac PowerPC G5 OSX V10.4.6
We have one Dell Dimension with Windows XP and a secondary Hard Drive where we store our files. If my wife has a word document, excel spreadsheet or powerpoint presentation open, and I attempt to open it from the same location, i get an error stating the file is in use and I am not able to open the document until she closes it. I know in windows, there was an option to say open as Read-Only. Is this possible on MacOSX?
I don't want to have to create a copy just to open the document and read it.
Thank You
Anthony

I believe that in Word for Mac that requires the creation of a Master Document and in Excel a Shared Workbook. I don't think that you can do it in PowerPoint. Check Help for Office from inside the two apps for how to create them.

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