[X4U] Opening Word 2007 Vista on an Intel Mac

Norman Cohen nacohen at mac.com
Sun Jul 13 07:34:35 PDT 2008


Microsoft recently released a converter that allows word 2004 to read  
docx files.

I got it as part of a recent auto update.

Norm

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On Jul 13, 2008, at 7:08, Linda <xpressobean at mac.com> wrote:

> On 7/13/08 5:58 AM, Roy van der Westhuizen wrote:
>
> A friends wife works at a University in Lesotho, using Word 2007 on  
> a Windows Vista machine. Her husband has an Intel Macbook. She says  
> she cannot open her Word docs on his Macbook if transferred to it.
> Is this a Vista, Word 2007 problem or what?
>
>
> What version of Office/Word is used on the Macbook? If it's Word  
> 2004, and she's saving .docx out of World 2007, then the docs won't  
> open; she'll need to save them with a .doc rather than.docx extension.
>
> If the Macbook is running Word 2008, they should open fine.
>
> Another possibility is that she's using Word 2007 on a Windows  
> partition on the Macbook -- is this the case?
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