What is Office <= 2003? I have Microsoft Word 10.0.0. There are no patches available that I’m aware of.
Whine whine whine, Why don't people use open source software?!? Because it sucks moldy donkey balls.
I don’t remember where the setting are (in properties somewhere), but you can change it so that it save in another format as the default. One of my schools ran into the same issue, and I wrote a small script that would change it for them automatically…but it would be easy enough to just do a quick write up on how to change the settings so that it will always save it properly in the future.
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If you only need to read and print the word documents microsoft has free viewers for windows that you can download.
He means “for Office 2003 or earlier.” To find out what Office suite this is part of (at work I have Word 11.something, part of Office 2003), pull down on the Help menu in Word and pick “About Word”. Underneath the version number of Word it ought to have what Office suite it’s part of.
I also downloaded from MS’s website the conversion plugin that automatically makes .docx/.xlsx files readable in my version of Office. I had to specifically go to their website to find this; it wasn’t offered as a patch/automatic upgrade.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en This, specifically, is the .docx to .doc converter.
Those options appear to be for Windows. I’m running Mac OS 10.6.
I have Office 10.0.0. It may be called Office 2000. I’m not sure. The version is 10.0.0.
Shoot, that is a problem. Oooh! Oooh! Can you try opening them with Google Docs? I’ve never tried.