My father used Office 2007 (I think he's about the only person in the world that did) until his computer self destructed recently and now he has an even more useless Vista system on a laptop. However he is having problems opening the .DOCX documents on his new machine. Searching Google for a converter has turned up 1000's of programmes but they all lead to paid for downloads from websites that want to sell you a million other programmes as well. Does anybody know of a converter program to turn DOCX back to DOC documents that is FREE! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Hi Tim

If he's got access to a previous version Microsoft Office 2000 or 2003, then he can install the following, which is FREE from Microsoft and will convert the Office 2007 DocX files to Office 2000 when opened:

[url] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...laylang=en [/url]

Hope it does the job for you.

Cheers
LP

Shouldn't a newer version automatically open older versions

I know my office2007 prog needed a patch to open/convert the newer DOCX version

Hi

Sorry, I was assuming that you have a older version of Microsoft Office? If you have Office 2007, then you are fine out of the box. If you have neither then I’d suggest OpenOffice:

[url] http://www.openoffice.org/ [/url]

which is FREE, and will read Microsoft Office 2007 DocX files without a problem, though if you have complex formatting, it might not look “so” pretty


Cheers
LP

Have you tried ?

Update for Microsoft Office Word 2007


Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 1 (SP1)

The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)

The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Thanks for the help guys, the problem is that his new laptop has no suites on it other than what Acer supplied in the bundle, and the Office 2007 was installed on his old computer by a techie who did some other work on it before it all when tits up so he doesn't have any 2007 disks, just lots of Office 2007 documents on memory sticks 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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I would try installing Open Office and seeing if this will open the documents. If it does, do a 'save as' and choose the earlier version of Word. If you see a bandwagon - it's too late.....

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Tim in Scotland wrote:

Thanks for the help guys, the problem is that his new laptop has no suites on it other than what Acer supplied in the bundle, and the Office 2007 was installed on his old computer by a techie who did some other work on it before it all when tits up so he doesn't have any 2007 disks, just lots of Office 2007 documents on memory sticks

Ive got the Office 2007 discs sat here Tim. I got it when I bought the laptop as a freebie. May be able to sort something out for you. Current, M135i in Estoril Blue with more extras than the cast of Ben Hur.

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