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Open MS Word 2007 .docx in MS Word 2003 or Older Versions

By: PowAxx | June 17, 2009 at 9:02 am | Posted in MS Office
About: If you will notice Miscrosoft Word 2007 is using a different extension and it is .DOCX insteald of .DOC which was commonly used in older versions on MS Word. There is this common problems on exchanging of documents files between Word 2007 users and other Word users. Typically .DOCX cannot be opened on older versions including MS Word 2003. With this growing [...]

If you will notice Miscrosoft Word 2007 is using a different extension and it is .DOCX insteald of .DOC which was commonly used in older versions on MS Word.

There is this common problems on exchanging of documents files between Word 2007 users and other Word users. Typically .DOCX cannot be opened on older versions including MS Word 2003.

With this growing problems, Microsoft has just launched Microsoft Office Compatibilty Pack which can make things easier for both users of old MS Office versions. Just download and install the said compatibilty pack and problems are gone.

It is advised to let other older users of old version to download and install the pack otherwise they will have troubles accessing the Word files. One thing to get around with this is to “SAVEAS” the document before sending it to others. Currently most compatible version is MS Word 97-2003.

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