Hi Andy,
To add a little to Friedrich's reply, For the 2007 Office system MS has changed to new file formats for the documents created in
the main Office apps. To help with communication with folks who may not have 2007 Office apps MS has provided two features.
- For folks with Office 2007 when you save a document you can choose to use File=>Save as and choose a 97-2003 Office version File
format. You can also make this your default choice, but that will turn off some of the newer editing features for you, by using
Alt,T,O,S to get to the 'Save' customization area.
- For folks who have earlier versions of Office or the free Office file viewers they can install a converter 'twinpack' that will
allow them to open the new 2007 Office file formatted documents in addition to those they can work with now. They won't have all of
the tools to work on these that you do in 2007 Office apps, but they should see, in most cases, the document as you sent it.
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I've downloaded 2007 beta and like it a lot. However, when I send an e mail with a file attachment to 2003 user, the attachment
can't be opened. Is this just the beta version problem or will it apply to the full Office 2007 programme? >>
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I hope this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP
LINKS to the 2007 Office System Beta
1. Free MS Office 2007 book from MS Press, 213 pages:
http://microsoft.com/learning/office2007/default.mspx#booksfrommspress
2.. Office 2007 Beta 2 Online Test Drive, Downloadable beta,
e-learning courses, doucmentation and movies:
http://microsoft.com/office/preview
3. Try the 2007 OfficeOnline preview website , without Office2007
a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit
http://officebeta.iponet.net