On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote: > Steve Cottrell wrote: > >>If you use MS Office on a PC, can you tell me: if you create a Word >>document and it is a '.docx' file, can you then 'Save As' an old- >>fashioned '.doc' file?? >> >>Many thanks. > > Yes. I'm pretty sure even the latest version of Office will let you do > that. (I know it did until Office 2008, which is the last version I > taught.) I think it can even let you do that as *default*. > > I haven't upgraded my version of Office in donkey's years. I keep a > copy of Open Office on hand for opening and creating newer format > Office documents (and then re-save them in the old format).
.. and on OS X v10.8 Mountain Lion, Pages and TextEdit know how to open .docx files now. I don't have any MS products installed, but between Pages, TextEdit, Numbers, and KeyNote, I can read all the current MS app files from Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and output to compatible format files as well. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
