Indic scripts on Microsoft Word and Google Docs

Creating documents with Indic scripts using online tools like Blogger or Quillpad and opening in MS Word 2003 doesn't work: the Indic letters are shown as rectangles. Quillpad's FAQ notes that

"You will have to install 'Supplemental language support' in Windows XP.
Start -> Control Panel -> Regional & Language Options -> Languages -> Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai)
(You would need your Operating System installation disc for this)
Incidentally(accidentally!!) Microsoft WordPad (write.exe) (and notepad to some extent) doesn't have any problem rendering indian language content, so if you don't have complex formatting in your documents you can use the minimalistic wordpad."

Even after the Complex script install, the problem persists in Word, but the WordPad workaround is useful for printing. The print command in Google docs nowadays creates a pdf, and this pdf has Telugu script mangled. Workaround till now was to take a screenshot (!) but now I can save as .doc, open in WordPad, correct font size issues and then print.

Just now found another workaround - use the File -> Print menu item in the browser menu instead of the Google docs menu - this one works fine!