Malke
That is also probable but it depends on which flavor of Office 2007 is installed. For example the STE version has to be done with the viewers . But since he did not mention the version of Office 2007 installed I gave him\her the way that will work across the board.
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"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:%23ygK9XBxHHA.4460@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Peter Foldes wrote:
>> chandru
>>
>> I am guessing that you mean that opening files created with Office 2007 you are not able to open them in Office XP.
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>> To view and read the files that you have created in Word and Excel with Office 2007 you will need to download and install the Word and Excel viewers so you will be able to read them with Office XP Word and Excel
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>> Word Viewer and Excel Viewer are available from the Office Download center
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>
> Either that, or the OP doesn't realize that the native file format for
> Office 2007 is not the same as it is in Office 2003. The OP needs to
> "Save As" and save his/her Office 2007 files in the older Office 2003
> format. There may be another, more automatic, way to set Office 2007 to
> save in the older format but Office isn't my area of expertise so I
> don't know it. Looking in Office 2007's Help for something like "save in
> Word 2003 format" might give the answer.
>
>
> Malke
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