Office 2007 & Office 2003

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Hi I am running Office 2007 & Outlook 2003 on Vista Home Premium
Today I made an Word 2007 document and attached it to an email to my friend
who is using Office 2003, with Word 2003 & Outlook 2003 on Windows XP Pro.
When my friend opened the attachment, it was all encrypted in what we can
only describe as goobly-gook, saying there was 112 pages when i only sent him
4 pages.

Is Office 2007 Word not compatible with Office 2003.

Or is there something that I or my friend can adjust for him to receive
these attachments on how they should look.

Cheers
John R McNally = macman2007uk
Thursday 24 July 2008 @ 07:35 am GMT
 
The default file format for Word 2007 (.docx) is completely different from
Word 2003 (.doc).

However, you can 'Save As...' into Word 2003 format.

SteveT
 
There is a work around for this. Your friend needs to go to the microsoft
website and download the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack for Office 2003.
This is because by default Offfice 2007 saves files in a newer format
(.docx) where as Office 2003 can only read the older format (.doc) unless
you use the Compatibilty pack.
You could just save your file as a word 97-2003 format document, by clicking
save as, and changing the type to "Office 97-2003 document" or something
similar. Anyway here's the link for the pack..

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...70-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

It's a 27.5mb file (so use broadband). It details what it does on the page.
I hope this helps.
And please dont hesitate to contact me directly if you need further help.

Joe Hartwell.
Hartwell House Computer
ICT Technician, Systems Administrator and Network Analyisist.

My Personal Email is : (e-mail address removed)

Written : 10:24 (GMT +/- 0) on Thursday 24th July 2008.
 
Hi I am running Office 2007 & Outlook 2003 on Vista Home Premium
Today I made an Word 2007 document and attached it to an email to my friend
who is using Office 2003, with Word 2003 & Outlook 2003 on Windows XP Pro.
When my friend opened the attachment, it was all encrypted in what we can
only describe as goobly-gook, saying there was 112 pages when i only sent him
4 pages.

Is Office 2007 Word not compatible with Office 2003.

Or is there something that I or my friend can adjust for him to receive
these attachments on how they should look.
Click to expand...
Either you can save in Office 2003 format, or your friend can install a
document converter from here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2xp8e3
 
Hi Everyone & thanks for the help, I will tell my friend about the Microsoft
download & or I may also save as word 2003 format & then send.
John R McNally
macman2007uk
 
So you just make blanket statements without saying what they are?

What are the compatibility problems by the way?
 
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