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Old 06-04-2008, 05:41 PM
Brandy Wright
 
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Default Why can't you use Microsoft office 2003 to open microsoft office?

I'm doing a discusion in college on Microsoft office 2007 and this is the
question that we were asked to find out about. i would really appricate
anyones help in answering this question.
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Old 06-04-2008, 05:52 PM
Gordon
 
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Default Re: Why can't you use Microsoft office 2003 to open microsoft office?

"Brandy Wright" <Brandy Wright@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ACAAA8EC-84F1-4781-AB55-CD7EE7BB9B22@microsoft.com...
> I'm doing a discusion in college on Microsoft office 2007 and this is the
> question that we were asked to find out about. i would really appricate
> anyones help in answering this question.



Well the question makes no sense.

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Old 06-04-2008, 05:59 PM
Bob I
 
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Default Re: Why can't you use Microsoft office 2003 to open microsoft office?

Your "question" lacks at least one noun before the question mark. Please
try again.

Brandy Wright wrote:

> I'm doing a discusion in college on Microsoft office 2007 and this is the
> question that we were asked to find out about. i would really appricate
> anyones help in answering this question.


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Old 06-04-2008, 06:01 PM
Mary Sauer
 
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Default Re: Why can't you use Microsoft office 2003 to open microsoft office?

I think the poster means when one double-clicks a Word document, Word 2007 opens
rather than 2003.

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"Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Brandy Wright" <Brandy Wright@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ACAAA8EC-84F1-4781-AB55-CD7EE7BB9B22@microsoft.com...
>> I'm doing a discusion in college on Microsoft office 2007 and this is the
>> question that we were asked to find out about. i would really appricate
>> anyones help in answering this question.

>
>
> Well the question makes no sense.



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Old 06-05-2008, 04:27 AM
Brandy Wright
 
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Default Re: Why can't you use Microsoft office 2003 to open microsoft offi

I was told to search for a reason why you can't open files from a client that
uses microsoft office 2007 and your company still uses microsoft 2003.

"Gordon" wrote:

> "Brandy Wright" <Brandy Wright@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ACAAA8EC-84F1-4781-AB55-CD7EE7BB9B22@microsoft.com...
> > I'm doing a discusion in college on Microsoft office 2007 and this is the
> > question that we were asked to find out about. i would really appricate
> > anyones help in answering this question.

>
>
> Well the question makes no sense.
>
>

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Old 06-05-2008, 06:10 AM
GreenieLeBrun
 
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Default Re: Why can't you use Microsoft office 2003 to open microsoft offi



Brandy Wright wrote:
> I was told to search for a reason why you can't open files from a
> client that uses microsoft office 2007 and your company still uses
> microsoft 2003.
>
> "Gordon" wrote:
>
>> "Brandy Wright" <Brandy Wright@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:ACAAA8EC-84F1-4781-AB55-CD7EE7BB9B22@microsoft.com...
>>> I'm doing a discusion in college on Microsoft office 2007 and this
>>> is the question that we were asked to find out about. i would
>>> really appricate anyones help in answering this question.

>>
>>
>> Well the question makes no sense.


Because Office 2007 uses a different file format (.docx) instead of .doc.

Of course the client with 2007 could save the files as .doc or .rtf or the
company could install the compatibilty pack (Microsoft Office Compatibility
Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
or use http://tinyurl.com/y5w78r)


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Old 06-05-2008, 06:11 AM
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
 
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Default Re: Why can't you use Microsoft office 2003 to open microsoft offi

Asking in a news group is a poor method of doing research. Start with Microsoft TechNet and work from there.

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After furious head scratching, Brandy Wright asked:

| I was told to search for a reason why you can't open files from a
| client that uses microsoft office 2007 and your company still uses
| microsoft 2003.
|
| "Gordon" wrote:
|
|| "Brandy Wright" <Brandy Wright@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
|| message news:ACAAA8EC-84F1-4781-AB55-CD7EE7BB9B22@microsoft.com...
||| I'm doing a discusion in college on Microsoft office 2007 and this
||| is the question that we were asked to find out about. i would
||| really appricate anyones help in answering this question.
||
||
|| Well the question makes no sense.
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Old 06-05-2008, 03:12 PM
Scot McPherson
 
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Default Re: Why can't you use Microsoft office 2003 to open microsoft offi

If you have the compatibility pack, you should be able to open 2007 office
files with office 2003. The file formats are entirely different, its not just
a change in the file extension.
Sometimes informatin is lost in the translation too. I have excel files
that I sometimes have to FIX after transfering it back and forth between 2003
at work and 2007 at home.

Scot

"Brandy Wright" wrote:

> I was told to search for a reason why you can't open files from a client that
> uses microsoft office 2007 and your company still uses microsoft 2003.
>
> "Gordon" wrote:
>
> > "Brandy Wright" <Brandy Wright@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:ACAAA8EC-84F1-4781-AB55-CD7EE7BB9B22@microsoft.com...
> > > I'm doing a discusion in college on Microsoft office 2007 and this is the
> > > question that we were asked to find out about. i would really appricate
> > > anyones help in answering this question.

> >
> >
> > Well the question makes no sense.
> >
> >

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