"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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The Compatibility Pack is intended to allow users of Office 2000, 2002,
and 2003 to open files created in Office 2007. It will have no effect on
Word 2002 except to allow you to open .docx files; as a bonus, you will
get the new C-fonts from Office 2007 installed in Windows. Download the
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007
File Formats from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"cranheim" wrote in message
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I am using Word 2002, SP3 on a system with Windows XP. I have received
Word files with a file type of .docx that I would like to be able to read.
I found there is a MS Office Compatibility Pack for Word
(FileFormatConverters.exe) version 3 dated 11/19/2007 available. Will this
fix my problem? Will my Word2002 still work as before? I have many Word
files I need to keep safe. If anyone out there has applied this update to
Word 2002, I would appreciate it if you would let me know how it worked
out. It is really important that I can keep my present Word .doc files in
tact. Thanks for your help. Charles Ranheim
Suzanne,
I downloaded and installed from the link you suggested. It works fine. I
was able to open a file type .docx, which I could not do before. The rest of
my Word program seem to be working OK. Thanks again for those who
responded. I appreciate it very much. Charles Ranheim