[alexhkleung]

I have encountered some compatibility problem of Word 07 with older Word
versions. This is my problem. I have saved some word files as €œdoc€� with Word
07 and brought them back to school however they would not open in any
computer at school. They turned to codes instead. The computers at school
were installed with Word 03 and were of same language pack (Eng) with the one
Ive installed to my home computer.

Can anyone tell me what went wrong?

[Graham Mayor]

Did you actually save the documents in Word97-2003 format? The extension
alone has no relevance to the format of the file.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


alexhkleung wrote:
I have encountered some compatibility problem of Word 07 with older
Word versions. This is my problem. I have saved some word files as
"doc" with Word 07 and brought them back to school however they would
not open in any computer at school. They turned to codes instead. The
computers at school were installed with Word 03 and were of same
language pack (Eng) with the one I've installed to my home computer.

Can anyone tell me what went wrong?

[alexhkleung]

I am sure that I have saved it in 97-03 format.

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

If you saved directly to removable media (floppy disk, CD, flash drive,
etc.), then doing so often results in partially written (corrupt) files
that open up as "codes". Save to hard drive, close Word, and then use
Windows Explorer or My Computer or CD/DVD mastering software to copy to
removable media.

alexhkleung wrote:

I have encountered some compatibility problem of Word 07 with older Word
versions. This is my problem. I have saved some word files as €œdoc€� with Word
07 and brought them back to school however they would not open in any
computer at school. They turned to codes instead. The computers at school
were installed with Word 03 and were of same language pack (Eng) with the one
Ive installed to my home computer.

Can anyone tell me what went wrong?

[Graham Mayor]

Can you send me a sample to the link on my web site home page?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


alexhkleung wrote:
I am sure that I have saved it in 97-03 format.

[alexhkleung]

Thank You!
I'll do more experiment on that and see if the problem persists.