Saving Vista Documents

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when I save any document a letter gets added to the end of the file so that
it cannot be opened. Here is a file that I saved last night TAFE application
Hollie.docx and I could not open it using windows XP
 
Hollie said:
when I save any document a letter gets added to the end of the file so
that
it cannot be opened. Here is a file that I saved last night TAFE
application
Hollie.docx and I could not open it using windows XP
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When you save a document in Word 2007 which has to be opened by an earlier
version, you need to 'SAVE AS' a 97-2003 document..


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when I save any document a letter gets added to the end of the file so that
it cannot be opened. Here is a file that I saved last night TAFE application
Hollie.docx and I could not open it using windows XP
Click to expand...

Your XP isn't running Office 2007, right?

You need to save the file in an older format that matches your version
of Office on the XP machine.
 
Hi Hollie,

You need the Office compatibility pack for your older version of this
software under XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...70-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en

The added 'x' is part of Office 2007's new format, but files created by it
cannot be opened with earlier versions without the above add-on. You can
also alter the settings in Office 2007 so that the default file format is
not the 'x' ones, but the older standards.

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Or you can include this link to a conversion kit for earlier versions so
that when they open Office 2007 files, they will be converted locally.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...70-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en

or use TinyURL = http://tinyurl.com/2rmzqh

Or you can include links to stand-alone viewers:

Word 2007 Viewer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...88-7cfa-457a-9aec-f4f827f20cac&DisplayLang=en
TinyURL = http://tinyurl.com/25keg8

Excel 2007 Viewer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=1cd6acf9-ce06-4e1c-8dcf-f33f669dbc3a
TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/2qyhx5

PowerPoint 2007 Viewer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485
TinyURL = http://tinyurl.com/yfyrhj

For PP Viewer, be sure to install SP1 afterwards:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e985ed98-5003-4dc1-88ec-3e151e4dc790
TinyURL = http://tinyurl.com/3msl2w

I would visit Office Update after installing any of these items, just to be
sure there aren't more recent updates.
 
Hi,
That is a Word 2007 format. When you save the document, save it as Word
97-2003 document by clicking on the Office orb (upper left corner) and select
save as.
 
when I save any document a letter gets added to the end of the file so that
it cannot be opened. Here is a file that I saved last night TAFE application
Hollie.docx and I could not open it using windows XP
Click to expand...


First, this has nothing to do with Windows Vista vs. Windows XP

Second, it's not that a letter gets added to the end of the file name,
it's that Office 2007 by default uses a whole different file format
than earlier versions of Office did. Word's new file format is called
..docx, instead of the older .doc format.

So the problem is that if you create a .docx file in Word 2007
(regardless of whether you are running Word under Windows Vista or
XP), another computer running an older version of Word (again, whether
it's running Word under Vista or XP) can not read it.

There are two possible solutions:

1. When you create the file in Word 2007, instead of doing a "Save,"
do a "Save as," and choose "Word 97-2003 document." That will save it
in the old .doc format instead of the new .docx one, and allow it to
be read by any version of Word.

2. Have the other computer, the one running the older version of Word,
go to
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...70-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en
or http://tinyurl.com/y5a879
and install the "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel,
and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats"

The second solution is the better one.
 
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