Hmm understand that ms office 2003 does not support 2007 files. I dont want to spend money for the newer copy of office. What is libre office, is this a free plugin or proper program to resolve the not opening issue.MS 2007 documents cannot be opened using MS Office 2003.
You can either get yourself a newer copy of MS Office or download and install a copy of Libre Office which will open all MS Office documents.
Libre Office is free, unlike MS Office.
Ok I will use this website to download libre officeFile Hippo is a reputable site where you can get all sorts of free, and paid for, downloads.
http://filehippo.com/
I use them for all my downloads. You will find Libre Office by typing it in their Search Box.
Thanks for the link you have shared for me. Hope it open 2003 Ms Word file using libre officeJoseph, link: https://www.libreoffice.org/
Libre Office is a full Office software suite and supplied as standard in most Linux Distros.
Libre Office 'Word' is called Writer and their version of the Excel spreadsheet is named Calc.