[Professor M]

P/T College professor here - MS rolled out this product just in time for
the back to school shoppers and I'm receiving DOCX from students that I am
unable to view/print. While the college has certainly updated their
facilities and labs - I work from home folks, I don't have an office or a
computer on campus.

I'm running XP (SP2) and have used Word Viewer 2003 or Wordpad to view
Word documents for years now with no trouble. Why? Well, I've been
running the same bloody Works suite at home for over 10 years because it
works just stinkin' fine!!


In order to open/print/grade some 10-15 papers (created with several
different releases of the software, no doubt), I have:


1. installed the final version of the Office Compatibility Pack

2. attempted to open these 10 docx. When attempting to open in explorer,
A 'Save As' window opens displaying the error, "The converter failed to save
the file". When I try to open from within Office Viewer 2003, wordpad or
any other application, I get a screen full of code.

3. Uninstalled the final version of the Office Compatibility Pack

4. installed the Office Compatibility Pack - BETA version B2TR

5. uninstalled that product when it didn't open ANY of the docx - same
results as #2

6. installed the final version of the Office Compatibility Pack ONE LAST TIME

7. Same results as #2


I've restarted my machine after each installation/unistallation, run MS
Update, etc, etc, etc; all to no avail.



I'd appreciate any guidance. Papers should be graded and returned in
22 hours.