criminal practices

[fpb]

They probably haven't waited for me to say this, but the fact that Microsoft has made the most recent version of Word incompatible from earlier ones (as I understand it) is really criminal. Moving a document from one computer to another risks wrecking it, and adding hours of dreary work and proofreading to what you had expected to have to do. And all to force us to buy the most recent version. Creeps!

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

I started a document in someone else's office computer, featuring Word2007. I transfered it to my own computer, featuring Word2002 (I think). It blew all the formatting and came out in the wrong typeface. Hours of extra work just to make it readable - as I said.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

I loathe Word 2007 with a vengeance. My office has a plug-in written in that at least gives the commands the old look. We also save by default as Word 2002. (.doc not .docx) That being said, if you update your Word 2002 or 2000 (I have both, one on my laptop and one on my desktop), it will instal a fix that'll enable it to read .docx documents.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

We also save by default as Word 2002

Which I understand you did not do? Instead of Ctr + S or "Save", you just need to do "Save as" and pick your old format.

[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

I too have my bone to pick with Word 2007. Just recently I had to deal with a Very Important Document that was sent to me in World 2007. My version of Word cannot even cope with it at all -- if I use All Files and force it to open, I get nothing but garbage characters.

However, I've found a site called Zamzar, http://www.zamzar.com/ which does file conversions, including docx to doc. Since the words were the important part of the document I needed to get opened (it was a sample file I was to emulate in writing my own material), I cannot vouch for Zamzar's ability to carry all formatting across accurately, particularly the more sophisticated stuff that approaches typesetting.