Office 2007 Converter

[Russ]

A dept is running Office 2003 and i want to role out, if possible, the
converter so people in my dept can read Office 2007 documents. Can someone
help me with that? Thanks.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Specifically what do you want help with? The converter is a free download
from Microsoft.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

 

[Russ]

Can I role the converter through GP to my clients?

Specifically what do you want help with? The converter is a free download
from Microsoft.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

A dept is running Office 2003 and i want to role out, if possible, the
converter so people in my dept can read Office 2007 documents. Can someone
help me with that? Thanks.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

I wouldn't know how ro start rolling that out. I'm generally on the
receiving end. (I downloaded it ages ago on my work system rather than wait
for IT to get around to it because I use Office 2007 at home.)

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

Can I role the converter through GP to my clients?

Specifically what do you want help with? The converter is a free download
from Microsoft.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

A dept is running Office 2003 and i want to role out, if possible, the
converter so people in my dept can read Office 2007 documents. Can
someone help me with that? Thanks.

 

[Eric Steel]

This converter is fine if you have a couple of PCs. But what about
enterprise users? This solution stinks. I have 1000's of users in multiple
offices around the country. I can't manually install this exe and I can't
expect all of those users to run it either. Where is the MSI for this
converter? Where is the converter for Windows Mobile as well? I have 100's
of Windows Mobile 5 users who can't open docx attachments.

Specifically what do you want help with? The converter is a free download
from Microsoft.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

A dept is running Office 2003 and i want to role out, if possible, the
converter so people in my dept can read Office 2007 documents. Can someone
help me with that? Thanks.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Russ,

When you download the converter you get an .exe file. The .MSI is inside the self extracting package and can be pulled out to
deploy. There is more on this in the Office 2007 Resource Kit at http://technet.microsoft.com/office

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Can I role the converter through GP to my clients? >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Eric,

For deploying for 'regular Windows' (desktop, laptop) use please see my reply to Russ in this same thread regarding the .MSI.

There is no Office 2007 converter/conmpatibility pack for Windows Mobile.

Windows Mobile also doesn't use older version Office files such as .doc and .xls files. These are converted when sending them to
the device and not all features are supported in the Pocket apps (similar to opening Word .doc files in WordPad).

The MS Windows Mobile/Pocket PC group separately creates the Office Pocket application versions and they would be the ones to
provide additional converters or an ActiveSync converter. I haven't been watching that side to see when that might happen, but you
may want to also post in the Windows mobile discussion group to see if those folks have any additional information on
plans/schedules for supporting the .docx et al formats. There are 3rd party converters becoming available that may be targeted to
that market as well. The XML (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx etc) formats for Office 2007 are in a published specification that is monitored
by a group outside of Microsoft, so the information needed to create the converters is available.

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This converter is fine if you have a couple of PCs. But what about
enterprise users? This solution stinks. I have 1000's of users in multiple
offices around the country. I can't manually install this exe and I can't
expect all of those users to run it either. Where is the MSI for this
converter? Where is the converter for Windows Mobile as well? I have 100's
of Windows Mobile 5 users who can't open docx attachments. <<
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Radtherapy]

Hi Bob -

Is there somewhere that I can get a list of the .msi files included in the
..exe package? I'm probably dense, but the only way I can get the .msi files
is to run the .exe and it doesn't show what files it's opening, running or
deploying or where it's installing to.

If I'm missing something please let me know.

Thanks.