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Reading Office 07 files
I sometimes get files from work that are .docx files.
I can read them at work because we use Office 2007. At home I have WORD '97 and I'm not aware of any patch that will allow me to read such a file. Is there some other way to view this program?? Perhaps some kind of viewer?? Mel |
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:28:02 -0500, "MZB" wrote:
I sometimes get files from work that are .docx files. I can read them at work because we use Office 2007. At home I have WORD '97 and I'm not aware of any patch that will allow me to read such a file. Is there some other way to view this program?? Perhaps some kind of viewer?? Have you tried Open Office? -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...444731033.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en Other converters: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en Tom MSMVP 1998-2007 "MZB" wrote in message ... I sometimes get files from work that are .docx files. I can read them at work because we use Office 2007. At home I have WORD '97 and I'm not aware of any patch that will allow me to read such a file. Is there some other way to view this program?? Perhaps some kind of viewer?? Mel |
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Unfortunately, the Word 2007 converters that Microsoft provide for previous
versions only work from Word 2000 to Word 2003 and are incompatible with previous versions. The only option if you want to edit them is to save the work documents as .doc compatible files. However, you can download a free Word Viewer from Microsoft that is compatible with Word 2007. The only problem you may encounter is that there MAY be a problem in that installing the viewer makes it the default application in Windows so that when you try opening your Word documents from Explorer, it opens the Viewer rather than Word. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "MZB" wrote in message ... I sometimes get files from work that are .docx files. I can read them at work because we use Office 2007. At home I have WORD '97 and I'm not aware of any patch that will allow me to read such a file. Is there some other way to view this program?? Perhaps some kind of viewer?? Mel |
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"Steve Hayes" wrote in message
news Have you tried Open Office? Unfortunately that won't read docx files yet..... |
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"Tom Ferguson" wrote in message
... http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...444731033.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en unfortunately that only mentiones Office 2000 - will it work with 97 that the OP has? |
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The OP will have to save or receive files as DOC, RTF, RFT rather than DOCX.
Tom MSMVP 1998-2007 "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Tom Ferguson" wrote in message ... http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...444731033.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en unfortunately that only mentiones Office 2000 - will it work with 97 that the OP has? |
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Hi Mel,
What version of Windows are you using at home? The MS Office 2007 compatibility converters for older Office versions require Office 2000 or higher, but the MS Word viewer that Terry mentioned will support the compatibility pack that will open Office 2007 files, provided you're running on Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or higher. http://microsoft.com/downloads/detai...c-f4f827f20cac ================ "MZB" wrote in message ... I sometimes get files from work that are .docx files. I can read them at work because we use Office 2007. At home I have WORD '97 and I'm not aware of any patch that will allow me to read such a file. Is there some other way to view this program?? Perhaps some kind of viewer?? Mel -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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