There *is* a viewew for MS word files.

Install
1. antiword from http://erinye.com/maemo/antiword_0.37-1_armel.deb
2. doc reader from https://garage.maemo.org/projects/docreader/

Doc reader is a GUI application which allows you to open a word file and convert it in pdf format (using antiword) on your tablet, so that you can browse it. You can convert it as well in ascii text that you can copy or edit.

Hopefully in the near future a stable port of abiword will be available - it's a word processing app that can open also doc files. The versions available now are quite unstable - look for them in the forum.