Compatiblity with Office 2003

C

CPA

Why can't receipients of my e-mail attachments open them? I have Office 2007;
they have Office 2003?
This is ridiculous that Microsoft makes it imcompatible.
Please advise.
Thanks
 
G

Gordon

CPA said:
Why can't receipients of my e-mail attachments open them? I have Office
2007;
they have Office 2003?
This is ridiculous that Microsoft makes it imcompatible.
Please advise.
Thanks
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Office 2007 by default saves in a new file format - .docx, xlsx, pptx.
This is not readable by prior versions of Office.
there are however two solutions. Either do a Save-As in Office 2007 and
choose the 97-2003 file type, or get your recipients to download and install
the Office 2007 compatibility pack. There is a further advantage to doing it
this way - they get all the additional fonts that are in 2007 and not in
prior versions.
get the compatibility pack here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...70-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en
 
C

CPA

Thanks, Gordon. I have done the save in 2003. However, most of my recipients
are clients, and I find it cumbersome to ask each one to download the fix. In
addition, none of my PDFs can be opened by Office 2003 users, and I don't
think the fix will work for that. There should be a fix for MY computer that
will eliminate this problem for all e-mails I send.
It's obvious the MS wants everyone to purchase Office 2007.
 
G

Gordon

CPA said:
Thanks, Gordon. I have done the save in 2003. However, most of my
recipients
are clients, and I find it cumbersome to ask each one to download the fix.
In
addition, none of my PDFs can be opened by Office 2003 users, and I don't
think the fix will work for that. There should be a fix for MY computer
that
will eliminate this problem for all e-mails I send.
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There is. You can set Office 2007 to default to the previous document types.
In Word for example do Office Button-Word Options-Save and set the default
document type to 97-2003.
I don't understand about pdf. Why can't they open pdf? PDF is PDF is PDF.
there's no different "types"...
 
S

Steve Rindsberg

In addition, none of my PDFs can be opened by Office 2003 users,

If they're trying to open the PDFs in Office programs, no. That won't work.
PDFs will open in Acrobat, the free Reader app, or one of several similar
programs. Reader's pretty widely distributed these days; have them save the
attachment to their hard drive then double-click it.
It's obvious the MS wants everyone to purchase Office 2007.
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Of course they do. They sell software for a living.
 
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