You should choose Office button - Save as, and save the files in Word
97-2003 (*.DOC) format.
You can also set Word 97-2003 as the default format (Office button - Word
Options - Save tab).
Another alternative would be for the "others" to obtain and install the
Office 2007 Compatibility Pack. However, it seems a bit much to offload the
chore to them when you can solve the problem by saving in a format they can
use.
Hope this helps...
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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog:
http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web:
http://www.herbtyson.com
"alethospress" wrote in message
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I have sent 2007 MS Word documents to others, and they cannot open them.
What
should I do to ensure they can open these 2007 documents if they do not
have
MS Word 2007?