Office 2007

Admiral Huddy · 20 Oct 2008 at 11:11

I have a client who is interested in upgrading their Office XP to Office 2007 but is concerned with backwards compatability.

Doesn't Word, for example, create .DOC1 documents that can't be viewed by previous versions?

Paul11 · 20 Oct 2008 at 11:16

Admiral Huddy said:
I have a client who is interested in upgrading their Office XP to Office 2007 but is concerned with backwards compatability.

Doesn't Word, for example, create .DOC1 documents that can't be viewed by previous versions?

yes, but you can save as .."previous versions .doc file" if you need to

you can set this as default too, so that all documents created are saved as backward compatible

chrislusty · 20 Oct 2008 at 11:16

office 2007 creates as default .docx so you need a file conversion pack for older versions of office to open and edit them. but 2007 will open older versions of office. You can also save as a .doc in 2007 too.

csmager · 20 Oct 2008 at 12:22

Opening docx on previous versions seems to automatically prompt the user to download the compatibility pack for their Office version. It's as close as it'll get to seamless.

squawkBOX · 20 Oct 2008 at 17:03

csmager said:
Opening docx on previous versions seems to automatically prompt the user to download the compatibility pack for their Office version. It's as close as it'll get to seamless.

Annoying though on computers where the users don't have admin rights...

swinnie · 20 Oct 2008 at 17:13

You can change the defaults in word to save as a .doc instead of .docx, or you can install a compatibility pack.