microscoft word question

[christie c]

hi, i am trying to open an important document on ym microsoft word 200
program. Its a resume that was sent to my hotmail account, so
downloaded the file and tried to open it, but it comes up as a littl
paragraph of squares and weird symbols? it this because maybe i don
have the right component installed in my word program to download an
open the file

 

[C A Upsdell]

hi, i am trying to open an important document on ym microsoft word 2000
program. Its a resume that was sent to my hotmail account, so i
downloaded the file and tried to open it, but it comes up as a little
paragraph of squares and weird symbols? it this because maybe i dont
have the right component installed in my word program to download and
open the file?

If you had taken the time to look on the Microsoft website (20 seconds)
you would have found this:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/CD010225801033.aspx

 

[Gordon]

If you had taken the time to look on the Microsoft website (20
seconds) you would have found this:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/CD010225801033.aspx

I do find it *QUITE* extraordinary and completely arrogant of Microsoft that
you have to get "converters" to convert documents written in different
versions of the SAME software!

 

[C A Upsdell]

I do find it *QUITE* extraordinary and completely arrogant of Microsoft that
you have to get "converters" to convert documents written in different
versions of the SAME software!

So you want Word 2000 to read Word 2003 documents with no converter?
How is Microsoft supposed to know in 2000 about Word 2003 features -- or
Word 2010 features -- that will affect the file format?

 

[Sparda]

hi, i am trying to open an important document on ym microsoft
word 2000
program. Its a resume that was sent to my hotmail
account, so i
downloaded the file and tried to open it, but it
comes up as a little
paragraph of squares and weird symbols?
it this because maybe i dont
have the right component
installed in my word program to download and
open the
file?

It was probably writen in Word 2003, download and install OpenOffice
1.1.5 (if you don’t want to give Microsoft your money), although
Office 2000 carnt open Office 2003 documents, OpenOffice has no
trouble.

OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/

 

[Gordon]

So you want Word 2000 to read Word 2003 documents with no converter?
How is Microsoft supposed to know in 2000 about Word 2003 features --
or Word 2010 features -- that will affect the file format?

That's the point - the file FORMAT should be standard. that's precisely why
Massachusetts decided against MS Office for their FUTURE document formats.

 

[C A Upsdell]

That's the point - the file FORMAT should be standard. that's precisely why
Massachusetts decided against MS Office for their FUTURE document formats.

So, for example, if Word 2000 file structure does not allow for (say)
Ruby Annotation (see http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/), then no later version
of Word could ever support it? This would stop much progress dead in
its tracks! It is NEVER possible to image all the future possibilities:
change is inevitable, so file formats must be mutable.