The California Department of Education (CDE) provides the following links to free third-party readers and viewers to help its site visitors view certain site content. This list of links is not intended to imply that these are the only options available. Appearance on this list does not imply endorsement by the CDE of any third-party software.
Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Files (PDF file extensions)
- For Windows - Adobe Acrobat Reader (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh - Adobe Acrobat Reader (Outside Source)
Microsoft Word Files (DOC file extensions)
- For Windows - Microsoft Word Viewer (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* - Word Documents can be opened with Appleworks (currently shipped with OS X)
- For Macintosh* and Windows - OpenOffice (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* and Windows - Google Documents (Outside Source)
Microsoft Excel (for XLS file extensions)
- For Windows - Microsoft Excel Viewer (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* - Excel Spreadsheets can be opened with Appleworks (currently shipped with OS X)
- For Macintosh* and Windows - OpenOffice (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* and Windows - Google Documents (Outside Source)
Microsoft Powerpoint (for PPT file extensions)
- For Windows - Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer 2007 (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* and Windows - OpenOffice (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* and Windows - Google Documents (Outside Source)
Microsoft Windows Media (for WMV file extensions)
- For Windows - Microsoft Windows Media Player (Outside Source)
- For Macintosh* - Flip4Mac and Microsoft Windows Media Player (Outside Source)
- Instructions to Display Captions in Windows Media Player
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Content (for news feeds)
For detailed information about RSS, visit CDE RSS Description and Help.
- FeedReader (Outside Source)
- FeedDemon (Outside Source)
- Google Reader (Outside Source)
- Using Microsoft Internet Explorer to access RSS (Outside Source)
* Microsoft does not have free Macintosh viewers for Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
