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Opening
Office 2007 Documents
with earlier Office versions
Your students are likely to have the newest
versions of programs, including Microsoft Office 2007. If you have an
earlier version of Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) you will need to
download a patch from Microsoft in order to open, edit or save Office
2007 documents, workbooks or presentations.
Click
Here to go to the page to download the required program.
Note: All
PC’s on campus have had the patch downloaded to them. You will only
need to do this on your home PC.
How to recognize Office 2007 documents
Office
2003 Word documents had the icon
 and the
file extension .doc. Office 2007 Word docs, have different icons
and file extension names.
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Icon |
File extension |
Description |
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This is an Office 2007 Word
document
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.docx
For example mypaper.docx |
To open this
document in Office 2003:
- Download
the “patch”.(see above)
- Save the
document to your computer
- Either:
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Click the document to open
- Or:
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Start Word 2003
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Select File/Open
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Browse for the document, click on it, click Open.
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Document will open in your Word.
Opening a
2007 document in 2003 will nullify some of the 2007 advanced
functions. |
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This is an Office 2007 Word
document that was saved with “macros-enabled” |
.docm
For example mypaper.docm |
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Office 2007
users can also save documents as Word97-2003 documents using the
Save As command. |
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