How to have Outlook beta word attachments open in Word 03

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Harry in NY

I have the office beta installed, but for work purposes, am using Word 03.
When I receive a Word 03 document through Outlook (which you must run in
beta), it opens as a Word 07 document. Is there an option or anything I can
change so that Outlook 07 opens Word attachments in Word 03? Thanks very
much.
 
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Kip

the office beta is not licensed for use on production systems. remove it.
most people in the software industry strongly discourage use of beta
software on production systems anyway.

to answer your question, no version of office supports opening documents in
another version. Word 2007 will still allow you to open, modify and save
using the old formats.
 
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Harry in NY

Thanks, but just to be quite clear, I'm not using the office beta in a
production system, but only to test it at home for private use. However, I
only have one computer at home and do occasionally do work from home on this
computer. It was for this reason that I kept Word 03 on my computer anduse
only it for work (done at home). However, you can't run both OUtlook 03 and
07 on the same computer - hence the issue. I do sometimes email myself a
document from the office to work on.
 
K

Kip

you can also save the attachments to disk, then run word 2003, and open the
file from within word. this typically causes all word documents to become
associated with 2003 (even the new formats, which causes a different set of
problems.) then word attachments will automatically open in 2003, until you
repair office 2007. still, only one version of word can be associated with
the documents.
 
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