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Someone please help, i hope there’s an easy solution….
i just got vista- what on earth is going on that people who don’t have vista can’t read documents that i wrote through my vista computer and e-mailed them?!
is there anything i can do to my vista document that will enable it to be read by non-vista users?
and please, if there is- direct me really really simply, step by step. i’m not much of a computer maven(yet!!)
thank you….
Belev Echad: ok here is the real answer.
you do not need to set any settings at all. the person getting the documents should download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats from Microsoft to read office 07 file extensions with the added x in them (doc is now docx, xls – xlsx). it can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en . (btw, if the person receiving your document had been updating his operating system and office suite like he or she should have, then this would have installed automatically, and they would not have had this problem.)
the reason you should leave the settings the way they are is explained here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338205.aspx. it explains why using file formats that use the open xml format is superior to their old one.
Mariner — Don’t be such a bigshot. Not everyone has to update their systems every couple of years. In fact, most people who updated to Vista right when it came out were very sorry indeed. Furthermore, those of us without our own computers and depending on library or other shared computers may not have rights to install the compatibility pack.
think613: maybe you shouldn’t be such an ignoramus before maligning someone. updating an operating is not installing an new version such as vista, it is updating it. you can either set it to auto-update, or do it manually. either should be done regularly, as majority of updates are security related.
opening the documents has absolutely nothing to do with vista at all. it has to do with the fact he has office 2007 installed. as i wasn’t talking to you but i to the person who posted the issue, i could care less if you use a library or other shared computers. use what you want, but then you will be stuck with such issues. for a person to save documents as earlier versions is not always smart, as it can remove much of the new formatting in 07. i am not being a “bigshot”, i am being helpful. sorry if this bothers you, but again i don’t care, as i was trying to help the original poster, not you.
and to come to mariners defense … he really knows what he is saying … helped me figure out why my computer was screwed up a while ago … although, for some reason, i am getting a 404 on the second link that mariner posted, but am not sure why
TOHIGHSCHOOLGUY,
There is an extra . (dot) at the end of mariner’s second URL. Remove that final “dot”, and the link will work.
TOHIGHSCHOOLGUY: im happy to hear all worked out in the end.
jospeh: for some dumb reason my sentence period somehow got into the link. thanks for clarifying.
TOHIGHSCHOOLGUY: im happy to hear all worked out in the end.
jospeh: for some dumb reason my sentence period somehow got into the link. thanks for clarifying.
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