I'd call it good business practice. They let you read the document, didn't
they. You might be able to cut and paste to get it back to word 97 -2003
(close maybe anyway). If you want to work with the new program, BUY IT !
"Three Lefts" wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:19:30 +0300, "Graham Mayor"
wrote:
While you may be able to open Word docx format with the addition of the
compatibility pack
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...686761033.aspx you still
don't have Word 2007 and so some 2007 specific features will not work. Ask
the originator to send you the document in Word 97-2003 format.
In my opinion, it is utter arrogance, not to mention stupidity, on the
part of Microsoft not to provide a free conversion utility that will
do exactly what Word 2007 does when I Save As Word 97-2003.
They made a huge and incompatible change to a program used by almost
everyone. This company is out of control.