View Portal content fro Office apps w/o having Office installed on computer

Is there a way in Portal 10g to display the contents of any MS Office suite document (e.g., Excel, Word, Power Point) directly in a Portal page without needing the Office software installed on a user machine? (For example, we have a Word document with HR benefit details. It's formatted with pictures, etc., and we'd like that document's content to display in a Portal page without having Word (or Open Office, etc.) installed on a user's machine. I've searched through various help screens and found nothing that was of assistance. (I am new to Portal & Oracle, and finding it somewhat difficult to understand even though I attended training!) There has been info about WebDav, etc., but my understanding of that is there's a software piece that must be purchased & installed on the client side. We're hoping to avoid that, if possible. Thanks to any Portal Gurus out there that could help!

Webdav is just a transfer protocol to access your Portal documents without an HTTP browser. This protocol is included in Windows webfolders for instance.
But whatever the protocol you use (http or dav) you will need a viewer to see documents.
If your main problem is to avoid Office licence costs then you could install OpenOffice on the client machine.
If your main problem is to avoid any installation on the user machine then maybe you can transform your office files into flash files and then publish them on the portal pages. That's what I do. See FlashPaper from Adobe/Macromedia or Print2Flash, rather cheap solutions.

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