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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[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.