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Monday, September 10, 2007

Opening Word 2007 files with Word 2003

Have you had problems opening Word files lately that were e-mailed to you by people who have Word 2007? Although a bit off topic, here's a very useful article I found on Affinity Consulting Group's blog (affinitycgi-networking.blogspot.com) :
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This is a question we continually are asked and wanted to publish it for all of our clients and associates. If you have not yet made the switch to Office 2007 including Word 2007, you may be experiencing problems when you are trying to open documents sent to you in Word 2007 format with your Word/Office 2003 Products.

Don't despair - you don't need to spend the time and money to upgrade to Office/Word 2007 to read these new formatted Word Documents. Surprisingly Microsoft has provided a translator for Word 2003 users to import and read Word 2007 files.

To access Microsoft's translator - click this link and download the FileFormatConverters.exe file to your desktop then install. You'll now be able to read Word 2007 formats in Word 2003.
Word 2007 to 2003 Translator

Gus Anderson can be reached for further questions at 954 340-4599 x202.

2 comments:

Jeff Hazin said...

Great article, and very timely - you just saved me some money by not having to purchase Office 2007! Thanks!

Amir Watynski - Watt Media said...

My pleasure! Thanks for reading my blog.