try the word viewer from ms
http://g.msn.com/9SE/1?http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=95e24c87-8732-48d5-8689-ab826e7b8fdf&displaylang=en&&DI=6066&IG=018958cf3f4a46ecb2461d8cc5dfb9f2&POS=1&CM=WPU&CE=1&CS=AWP&SR=1
Word Viewer 2003 lets you open Word 2003 documents and documents created with all previous versions of Microsoft Word for Windows® and Microsoft Word for Macintosh. In addition to Word document files (.doc), you can also open files saved in the following formats:
Rich Text Format (.rtf)
Text (.txt)
Web Page formats (.htm, .html, .mht, .mhtml)
WordPerfect 5.x (.wpd)
WordPerfect 6.x (.doc, .wpd)
Works 6.0 (.wps)
Works 7.0 (.wps)
XML (.xml)
if that don't work, maybe someone here can check the doc for you, dunno how confidential it is ...