Word 9 doc in Tiger

I was sent a Word document that I am unable to open in TexEdit, Appleworks (with MacLink Plus), Abiword and Neo-Office. TexEdit returns an error message while the other programs all crash. I looked at the file in more (terminal) and it seems to be Word 9. Is there any way to view this on a Mac. (BTW, I know about antiword, but it is now 2 years old.)
Thanks
PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Well, I suppose you could use Word for the Mac. However, if none of the programs you tried will open the file, I suspect that it's corrupt. Especially since you said that all of them (besides TextEdit) crash. Also, why does it matter if antiword is 2 years old? Word 9 is even older than that, and as long as Antiword runs, I don't see why you couldn't at least give it a shot. I also found this while searching around: http://www.panergy-software.com/products/lp/we/gn_op.html . Never used it, but it looked like it might be helpful to you.

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