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David R. Norton, MVP Shell/User
.... can I some how set it to be an earlier version?
Problem: At work Office XP is used. I've installed Office 2007 in
Vista (I have Office XP on my Windows XP for compatibility) and when I
read email from work using the web mail function the exchange server
provides many emails have .doc or .xls files attached that I need to
open. Office 2007 will open these files but it takes a very long time
and much fiddling around as they are converted to the later format.
I've set Word and Excel to save always save files as the previous
versions of Office to keep compatibility with work but I don't want to
convert files in order to open them, it takes too long and too much
fiddling around to do so.
I've installed OpenOffice and made it the default, now .doc or .xls
file open easily and I believe installing Office XP would also solve my
problem but I'd like to keep Office 2007 IF and only if I can set it to
NOT convert Word or Excel file when opening them. If there's a way to
do this I haven't found it yet.
Or should I just remove Office 2007 and install Office XP?
PS, I don't think they'll upgrade at work any time soon, it's a non-
profit organization and there's no money for computer stuff, almost all
hardware, software, etc. is donated.
Problem: At work Office XP is used. I've installed Office 2007 in
Vista (I have Office XP on my Windows XP for compatibility) and when I
read email from work using the web mail function the exchange server
provides many emails have .doc or .xls files attached that I need to
open. Office 2007 will open these files but it takes a very long time
and much fiddling around as they are converted to the later format.
I've set Word and Excel to save always save files as the previous
versions of Office to keep compatibility with work but I don't want to
convert files in order to open them, it takes too long and too much
fiddling around to do so.
I've installed OpenOffice and made it the default, now .doc or .xls
file open easily and I believe installing Office XP would also solve my
problem but I'd like to keep Office 2007 IF and only if I can set it to
NOT convert Word or Excel file when opening them. If there's a way to
do this I haven't found it yet.
Or should I just remove Office 2007 and install Office XP?
PS, I don't think they'll upgrade at work any time soon, it's a non-
profit organization and there's no money for computer stuff, almost all
hardware, software, etc. is donated.