Student Pages > Software Utilities
This is a comprehensive listing of software utilities that you may require as part of your online course.
Refer to your instructor for the software utilities or packages you need for your particular online course.
Office Utilities
- Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0 (Works with Word 2000, Excel 2000) - (Windows All Versions) (265kb)
This is a freely available upgrade for MS Office that will enable you to save 'compact' HTML documents from MS Word 2000 and Excel 2000. These 'compact' HTML files are much smaller, because they remove the office specific tags.
- Word 97/2000 Viewer (Windows 95/98/NT) (3.8MB)
With the Microsoft Word Viewer 97/2000, Microsoft Word users can share documents with those who do not have Word and users without Word can open and view Word documents.
- PowerPoint 97/2000 Viewer (Windows 95/98/NT) (2.8MB)
The Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 97 allows people who use PowerPoint to share their presentations with people who do not have PowerPoint installed on their computers.
- Excel 97/2000 Viewer: Spreadsheet Files (Windows - All Versions) (3.7MB)
Microsoft Excel Viewer is a small, freely distributable program that lets users view and print Excel for Windows (versions 2.0 and greater) and Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh (versions 2.2a and greater) spreadsheet files.
- Word 97/2000 Converter for Word 6 and 95 Users (Windows 2000/NT) (1011kb)
If you are using Word 6 and 95 for Windows 32-bit Operating Systems, this converter will allow you to open files created by people using Word 97/2000. The converter has been enhanced to compress pictures inserted into Word documents.
Compression Utilities
Image Utilities
- iView (Windows - All Versions) (864kb)
iView is a Freeware imageviewer for Windows. It enables you to open and save GIF, PIC, TIF, CUT, PCD, PSP, PDD, PSD, RLA, SGI, RLE picture formats.
- pic2pic (Windows - All Versions) (352kb)
pic2pic is a Freeware batch image converter. It enables a large volume of images to be converted from one font to another as a batch process. It supports input formats including BMP, EMF, GIF, ICO, JPEG, JPG, PBM, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, TIF, TIFF, TGA, WMF, and can output to formats including BMP, JPG, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, TGA, TIF.
Multimedia
- Apple Quick Time 4.1 (Windows - All Versions) (7.9MB) - Mac OS (bin) (8.8MB)
Quick Time 4 lets you add more than 200 digital media capabilities and components to your Mac or PC.
- Shockwave, Flash & Authorware (Windows - All Versions, Mac Power PC)
Macromedia's Shockwave, Flash and Authorware Player plug-ins let you experience automation and entertainment in your Web browser. The new Shockwave 7 provides auto-updating of the player.
- Real Networks RealPlayer (Windows - All Versions, Mac OS)
Play online audio and video content.
- Microsoft Media Player 6.4 (Windows - All Versions) (3.4MB)
- Microsoft Media Player 7.0 (Windows - 98, Me, 2000) (9.1MB) - Mac OS (hqx) (3.1MB)
Windows Media Player supports Windows Media (WMA,ASF), MP3, WAV, MIDI, AVI, and other formats.
Audio/MP3
Browsers
Smart Document Readers
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.05 (Windows - All Versions) (5.5MB) - Mac OS (bin) - (5.1M) Mac OS (hqx) (6.9M)
View and print millions of documents on the Web with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Ghostscript and Ghostview (All systems)
Program which displays documents in PostScript (*.ps) format. PostScript files are similar to PDFs, which Ghostscript can also view. The graphical interface for GhostScript, GhostView, is also available at this site.