Opening MS Word 2007 documents with older versions of Word February 2, 2009
Posted by Katrina Gormley in How To, Useful Stuff.trackback
If you have recently purchased a new computer with MS Office, or have been sent a document by someone who has, you may have seen some files that look to be Microsoft Office documents, but their file extensions were different from what you are used to. The new Microsoft Office 2007 saves documents with different file extensions — the Word files are most commonly save with the .docx file extension. Older versions of Word (like what we have here at school) won’t open the newer documents unless you load a converter on your computer. The converter can be downloaded for free from Microsoft by visiting this webpage http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en
Also remember, you can always save a file as an older version or even in a version compatible with another program such as WordPerfect or MS Works, by changing the “Save As Type” at the bottom of the Save As dialog box.
~Happy Computing,
Katrina
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