title: How can I view Microsoft Office documents in a WinForms application using the installed version of Office?
body: <p>I'm writing a feature to allow users to quickly skim through and review a number of word documents fairly quickly. All users will have either Office 2003, 2007 or 2010 installed (this is required for some other features). The documents (the majority of which will be Word) just need to be displayed read only.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried using the example on <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304662/" rel="nofollow">MSDN</a>, where the office document is loaded into a web browser component, using VS2008 and Office 2007.</p>
  
  <p>Excel spreadsheets loaded reasonably well, but Word documents appeared in a separate Window, albeit with no toolbars showing only the body of the document. It also seems that Microsoft have stopped supporting this way of rendering office documents as the article hasn't been updated since 2007.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone advise on how to get this working successfully?</p>
  
  <p>I've also had a look at third party components such as <a href="http://www.aspose.com/categories/.net-components/aspose.total-for-.net/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">aspose.net</a> which look great, but the license fee is pretty big and seems like overkill considering all users will have Office installed already.</p>