Vista - USING OFFICE 2007 FILES IN XP

greetings

i purchase a new laptop with windows vista and i
install office 2007 in it. if i make any files in word or execel and i want
to open in xp means the file i created in office 2007 is not opening. so pls
send some solutions to me.

chandru

I am guessing that you mean that opening files created with Office 2007 you are not able to open them in Office XP.

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

Word Viewer and Excel Viewer are available from the Office Download center

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"chandru" <chandru@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:220C4ED3-DD3D-46C1-8542-5D7EAB3A689A@microsoft.com...
> greetings
>
> i purchase a new laptop with windows vista and i
> install office 2007 in it. if i make any files in word or execel and i want
> to open in xp means the file i created in office 2007 is not opening. so pls
> send some solutions to me.

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.
>
> 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
>
> Word Viewer and Excel Viewer are available from the Office Download center
>

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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Yeah. If you're not using Office 2007 on the XP machine you'll have to save
the Office docs in the old format. For example, .doc rather than .docx for
Word documents. Has nothing to do with Vista. It's that Office 2007 now
saves files in a new XML format by default.

"chandru" <chandru@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:220C4ED3-DD3D-46C1-8542-5D7EAB3A689A@microsoft.com...
> greetings
>
> i purchase a new laptop with windows vista and i
> install office 2007 in it. if i make any files in word or execel and i
> want
> to open in xp means the file i created in office 2007 is not opening. so
> pls
> send some solutions to me.

chandru wrote:
> greetings
>
> i purchase a new laptop with windows vista
> and i install office 2007 in it. if i make any files in word or
> execel and i want to open in xp means the file i created in office
> 2007 is not opening. so pls send some solutions to me.

Office 2007 viewers
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
or use http://tinyurl.com/y5w78r

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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Word Viewer and Excel Viewer are available from the Office Download center
>>
>
> 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
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

chandru wrote:

> greetings
>
> i purchase a new laptop with windows vista
> and i install office 2007 in it. if i make any files in word or
> execel and i want to open in xp means the file i created in office
> 2007 is not opening. so pls send some solutions to me.

Hi chandru,

How to install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack so that you can
use earlier versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word to open and to save
files from 2007 Office programs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923505

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William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

chandru wrote:
> greetings
>
> i purchase a new laptop with windows vista and i
> install office 2007 in it. if i make any files in word or execel and i want
> to open in xp means the file i created in office 2007 is not opening. so pls
> send some solutions to me.
You have two choices:

XP vs. Vista is not the issue. If you are trying to open Office 2007
files with an earlier version of Office, you have two options:

1) on the computer with the earlier version of Office, download and
install the file conversion kit. All you have to do is try and open a
file and you'll be given the opportunity to download/install the kit.

2) On the computer with Office 2007, you can set the default to save
files in an earlier format (DOC vs, DOCX).

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Regards,
Hank Arnold