Another alternative that may also be useful for this and other
incompatibilities: Download and install Free Apache OpenOffice Suite
at http://www.openoffice.org/ , or LibreOffice, a 2010 split-off from
OpenOffice (when it was unclear whether OpenOffice development could
continue after Oracle bought Sun). This alternative can both load and
save documents in its own formats, or in various MS Office as well as
other formats. Compatibility is not always 100% but it should be close
enough. Might even be able to use it to load an offending document and
then save it in a format compatible with your ancient Word 2002, if you
prefer to work with it there.
The user interfaces with OpenOffice and LibreOffice are of course
somewhat different from MS Office, but have the advantage that they are
less likely to change than those of MS Office, subject to the whims of a
for-profit vendor, whose main goal is to encourage or force you to buy
additional software at every hardware and Operating System upgrade.
J. C. Ewing
On 07/16/2012 05:49 AM, Andrew Rowley wrote:
Word 2007 changed to a zipped, XML based file format (.docx).
There is an addin to older varions of Word to read 2007 files:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/open-a-word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-word-HA010044473.aspx
Alternatively, the sender might be able to use "save as" in Word and
save it to a Word 2002 file format.
Regards
Andrew Rowley
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Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org
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