The sender doesn't always know what versions the recipients have. When in
doubt, it's always the sender's responsibility to save in the lowest version
that's likely to be common to all. With templates, that's doubly important
because the converter doesn't handle them at all.
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JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote:
There's been enough information about how Office 2007 formats are
different from the previous versions. No one should ever send a file
that would require the recipient to download a converter to read it.
"Anders" wrote in message
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Jay Freedman wrote:
That's correct. I'm not sure of all the considerations that led to
it, but the compatibility pack's ignorance of dotx format is by
design.
Wow - how incredibly stupid. What about users who have been sent docx
files and don't have access to office 2007? Please don't recommend
installing the office 2007 trial version - if you do that, you won't
be able to revert back to office 2003 without completely
reinstalling the OS, since office 2007 is very sloppy about removing
all the various dlls and resetting the registry on uninstall (we
actually tried to manually clean it up, but it was too big of a mess.
Why in the world can't you make office 2007 files backwards
compatible with this additional piece of software?