[DJElliott]

Thank you, bob. Looks like 2007 is going to bring a lot of changes....I am
wondering why/how a template file differs from a doc file? I wish MS would
review its office template section and only require 2007 for those documents
that actually need 2007's feature set--or sort by version, so we don't have
to be depressed by templates we can't yet use. I will try using the MS Word
2003 viewer since the 2007 viewer is not available, yet. I know the guy who
will be testing 2007 for our company--time to bring in some food so he'll do
that load, save in 2003 thing for me--whenever he gets around to it!
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DJELLIOTT


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi D.J.,

The limitation for the Office 2007 compatibility pack to work only with documents rather than template files for older versions is
an 'as intended' behavior at this point. Templates are apparently more complex to deal with in the conversion than documents.

The compatibility pack will work with the Word 2003 viewer.

If the document you have was created in a pre-release version of Word it may not be usable in release product versions.
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"DJElliott" wrote in message ...
Let me get this straight, cause I am not getting this. MS Office 2007 File
Compatibility Pack cannot/does not work with DOTX files? By DESIGN?

This makes most newer MS Templates unuseable. Is this by DESIGN?

When I try to open a file, in MS Office 2003, I get a "this is a pre-release
version of the Compatibilty Pack" error message. It provides a link to a
current Compatibiltiy Pack. Problem is, the link is the file I downloaded--I
never had any flavor of MS Office Beta on my machine.

I cannot find an MS Office 2007 file viewer, either.

thanks
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DJELLIOTT
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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