Plug-ins and Viewers

This page provides links to sources for some of the plug-ins required to view content (e.g. videos and documents) on this website.

Microsoft Office Files

Many of the documents on our website are created using Microsoft Office. You do not need the full Office suite to access these documents.

You can open and view these documents using the following viewers:

Microsoft Word Viewer - open and view Microsoft Word documents (.doc and .docx files)
Microsoft Excel Viewer - open and view Excel spreadsheet files (.xls, .xlsx and .csv files)
Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer - open and view Powerpoint presentations (.ppt and .pptx files)

You can also view most Microsoft files using free alternatives such as OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice.

Portable Document Format (pdf) is a format for viewing documents.

Flash Player - used to view flash videos (e.g. YouTube)

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