How to open MS 2003 docs in MS 2007?

Jolaaled

I have been using MS 2007 for a while and love it. However, my new employers continue to use the old MS 2003, which means i can't open/work on the 'old version' documents in my newer Office version.

Does anyone know how i can do this??

thanks all

PS I'm ok with saving 2007 to 2003..its the other way round (2003 to 2007) that i can't seem to find a solution for!

thanks

TonyMMM

2007 should open Office 2003 documents with no problem at all ...are you sure about the format and what error message do you get ?

Jolaaled

TonyMMM wrote: »

2007 should open Office 2003 documents with no problem at all ...are you sure about the format and what error message do you get ?

yes..i've usually no problem with opening the documents, but then I can edit or format them in any way.

But sometimes i can't open them at all and get a message that says:

'word was unable to read this document. Try one or more of the following: Open and repair file, open the file with text recovery converter'.

thanks for the help!

Jolaaled

I also get the following message when I try to open at 2003 in 2007:

.xls is not valid in Win32 application

can anyone help?

many thanks

swvillafan

Jolaaled wrote: »

I also get the following message when I try to open at 2003 in 2007:

.xls is not valid in Win32 application

can anyone help?

many thanks

Hi there,

Try the steps from this website and its should do the trick!

aerostar

.XLS is a spreadsheet not a word document, you need the EXCEL program for this file extension.

magpiecottage

aerostar wrote: »

.XLS is a spreadsheet not a word document, you need the EXCEL program for this file extension.

There are free alternatives that will open it if you do not have Excel, the best known is probably OpenOffice.org.