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| 01-25-2008 | #1 |
| | Help with opening word documents on Vista I was given a new laptop with Vista on it and have been trying to open documents created in Microsoft Word on a PC with XP on it... no luck! The table format is scrambled. Any thoughts? The laptop has got Microsoft Works but does not appear to have any Office products. Also I cannot find a way to open the tables tool bar so that I can merge and split files in a table... at least that would mean I could edit the cells. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks. |
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| 01-25-2008 | #2 |
| | Re: Help with opening word documents on Vista Mrs Moo wrote: (snip multipost) Asked and answered in the other newsgroup to which you posted. Please don't multipost; it makes more work for everyone and will get you *less* help, not more. See this for why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting If you have forgotten where you posted or can't find your post, use Google Groups Advanced Search and search for your name. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User |
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| 01-25-2008 | #3 |
| | Re: Help with opening word documents on Vista On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:44:01 -0800, Mrs Moo <Mrs Moo@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > I was given a new laptop with Vista on it and have been trying to open > documents created in Microsoft Word on a PC with XP on it... no luck! The > table format is scrambled. Any thoughts? The laptop has got Microsoft Works > but does not appear to have any Office products. This has nothing at all to with Windows XP vs. Vista. To open a file, you need to have installed the same application that created it, or a compatible one. Since you say it "does not appear to have any Office products," clearly you don't have what you need to open it. If you just want to open Word files, not create or modify them, you can download the free Word viewer at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/891090 Otherwise you will need to buy a copy of Word. Or get a compatible program, like WordPerfect or the freeware OpenOffice (but recognize that such compatibility is never perfect). -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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| 01-25-2008 | #4 |
| | SPAM Re: Help with opening word documents on Vista SPAM rude discourteous answer, typical. blatant self serving advertising from ms news rules. We ask that you refrain from posting advertisements or solicitations that do not pertain directly to the intended use and purpose of the newsgroup or chat. https://www.microsoft.com/library/ga...RulesofConduct applies to EVERYONE. mikeyhsd@xxxxxx "Malke" <notreally@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eUGGXl3XIHA.4880@xxxxxx Mrs Moo wrote: (snip multipost) Asked and answered in the other newsgroup to which you posted. Please don't multipost; it makes more work for everyone and will get you *less* help, not more. See this for why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting If you have forgotten where you posted or can't find your post, use Google Groups Advanced Search and search for your name. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User |
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