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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[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.