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Comment from Samuel on 2009-11-09

2009-11-09T20:49:54Z

cannot open either word 2003 or 2007 in office 2007. used to have office 2003 and recently changed to 2007. when i try to open, it says "not available" what should i do?

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Comment from George on 2009-10-28

2009-10-28T16:51:39Z

Hello Leo, I have just installed all the Windows XP and Office Updates (also the "High Priority" of course). I installed also the recommended "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats" But when I try to open an Excel 2007 file my office 2003 seems to open it but keep eating CPU time and running forever without let me read or work in the file... Can you help me, please? Thanks!

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Comment from buddy on 2009-10-04

2009-10-04T20:27:24Z

hi leo,
this is m and the thing is i got the same problem as same as other mentioned above , in the above information furnished it says about to have the all high priority updates from
microsoft update install,before anyone install the converter
so , can u let me know how to check whether
i have updates to install the converter for the files of 2007 office documents.

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Comment from Arthur J Gross on 2009-09-09

2009-09-09T15:00:26Z

Article says pack only works as far back as Office 2000. I still use Office 97, and it's really all I need so I don't want to upgrade. Is there a compatibility pack available to work with Word 97?

Not that I'm aware of. After 12 years it might be time to upgrade.

12-Sep-2009

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Comment from Bev Fisher on 2009-04-27

2009-04-27T23:43:54Z

Hi Leo
I have Microsoft Office Word 2007 and my researcher in America is asking me to switch to a lower version so they can open an attachment I sent from Australia. Can you please help?
With thanks, Bev

Did the instructions in the article that you just commented on not help?

- Leo
28-Apr-2009

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Comment from Nitin on 2009-01-27

2009-01-27T10:29:46Z

Vista machines are being rolled out to clients with Win2007 MSOffice, which produces files with new file extensions, which our process does not recognize.Need to Update our process to handle the new file extensions produced in MSOffice 2007.
1.Please tell us what type of code chnges required ?
2. Do we need the new jar for this?

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Comment from Fred Stella on 2009-01-09

2009-01-09T23:18:24Z

I just installed Office Pro '07 over my old Office 2000. The new program comes up fine, but won't open my old docs. I did download all the updates & the service pack that is mentioned above. Still nothing. Any other ideas?

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Comment from kashif on 2008-12-15

2008-12-15T15:35:10Z

Dear leo,
i want to attach my resume at a website which is in msworls2003.how i can change it in doc,docs file extension.

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Comment from Arunkumar on 2008-08-05

2008-08-05T13:23:53Z

i am having set of xlsx and pptx files, need to convert those to xls and ppt. but the command line is not doing any help.

I have downloaded the office compatibility pack and installed, then i tried for the xlsx to xls conversion

c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12>excelcnv -oice c:\xl.xlsx c:\xl.xls

it gives out a xl.xls but its just the copy of my input xlsx file when i open that file in the office 2000 it gives error. i just renamed the xl.xls to xl.zip, now i can see the xmls inside. so it just created the copy of my input file and renamed it to xl.xls.

Any help on this highly appreciated.

Thanks

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Comment from Rhonda Chin on 2008-07-30

2008-07-30T19:39:24Z

Thanks for the help! Worked like a charm!

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Comment from Jomell on 2008-06-25

2008-06-26T06:53:23Z

see if you can install this update for office. It should allow you
to view docx files and convert them to regular doc files.

The update is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466

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Comment from Carmen on 2008-04-02

2008-04-02T07:33:12Z

Dear Leo,

My notebook is on Win Vista with MS Office 2003. Recently I have been received mails with attachments of office documents(Word or Excel without the usual extensions ie .doc or .xls) which I can only opened when I clicked on it and tried wither to "open with" either excel or word.

I have downloaded and installed both OCONVPCK file , File Format Converters as well as Compatibility Files.

Unfortunately, the problem persists. It will not auto convert files whereby I can open straight away as it is.

Pls help! Thanks.

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Comment from Ibish on 2007-07-02

2007-07-02T09:26:45Z

cool xD

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Comment from Archie Galloway on 2007-03-19

2007-03-19T23:21:52Z

I am trying to open an excel 2007 file on a PC that has Office 2003, I loaded the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack File Formats, but I still get an error saying "The converter could not convert the file." Can you help me?

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Comment from iSynth on 2007-03-11

2007-03-11T18:58:35Z

thanx Leo! this article was really helpful!
cheers

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Comment from Anne Dakmak on 2007-03-10

2007-03-10T22:02:26Z

comment re Office 2007 related to question Microsoft Word with Office 2001 and was not backed up when XP replaced ME and I have 6 CDs but am told that this should be for a NEW Computer...what trouble might I incur to try to download the CDs and then use 2007?
I currectly use Open Office but I miss Microsoft Word for many other applications.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-03-10

2007-03-10T18:45:11Z

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"The Compatibility Pack can also be used in conjunction with the
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Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new formats."

Leo
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Comment from Michael Horowitz on 2007-03-10

2007-03-10T17:54:54Z

It seems as if Microsoft is trying to push Office 2007 by excluding people without an old version of Office from viewing files in the new format.

Up till now, Microsoft has offered free Viewer programs for the office applications which let people with Open Office, Works, the Corel suite or whatever, view files created in Office. There doesn't seem to be a viewer program for Word 2007 or for Excel 2007 (there is one for PowerPoint 2007). I wonder why.

The advantage of a stand-alone viewer program is that it is less intrusive than updating an older version of Office and less likely to cause a problem (always a possibility with any patch/update). Then again, it is a viewer, not an updater.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-03-09

2007-03-09T17:16:53Z

Whoopsie. Thanks - fixed. :)

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Comment from Dan ullman on 2007-03-09

2007-03-09T17:04:04Z

".. pack works with Office 200.."

It only feels that old Leo (grin)

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