There's something to be said for the compatibility of PDF. Microsoft has a free plugin that lets you save Office files as PDFs: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en (EDIT: I see you are using Office 2003; this may only work for Office 2007, though there are other freeware third-party options that would let you create PDFs)

There appear to be a few utilities allowing MDI viewing. Maybe you could try one of them: http://www.tucows.com/preview/503893 or http://www.bugysoft.com/product_en.html?gl=1#gui

The latter ( MDI2PDF Converter) allows viewing in the free version and conversion to PDF, etc. in the paid versions.