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Rick Wolfe

I want to open old Word 2003 documents in Word 2007. Vista did this originally when installed but somehow this operation has stopped occurring. When I open a Word 2003 document it eventually opens in Word 2003.
I have tried to re-point it to Word 2007 but it winds up going to 2007 Microsoft Windows Office Component and not the actual exe. file.
Where is the exe. file hidden?
 
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Mike Hall - MVP

I want to open old Word 2003 documents in Word 2007. Vista did this originally when installed but somehow this operation has stopped occurring. When I open a Word 2003 document it eventually opens in Word 2003.
I have tried to re-point it to Word 2007 but it winds up going to 2007 Microsoft Windows Office Component and not the actual exe. file.
Where is the exe. file hidden?

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Is Word 2007 a trial version?


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Tom Ferguson

The Word main executable is winword.exe and is usually found in C:\Program
Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12 for the default install on 64 bit
Windows versions (Windows Pro 64 and Vista 64). It is found in C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office12 for 32 bit Windows versions (default
install).

A repair install of Office should restore working links. Assure yourself
that your copy is not an expired demo version.
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I want to open old Word 2003 documents in Word 2007. Vista did this
originally when installed but somehow this operation has stopped occurring.
When I open a Word 2003 document it eventually opens in Word 2003.
I have tried to re-point it to Word 2007 but it winds up going to 2007
Microsoft Windows Office Component and not the actual exe. file.
Where is the exe. file hidden?
 
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Mick Murphy

If Office 2007 came pre-installed on your computer, that usually means it is
a 60 day trial, then cough up the money.

Or, did you specifically ask for Office 2007 to be installed by the
Manufacturer?
If not, definitely a trial.
 
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Rick Wolfe

I believe so. My new Excel 2007 works fine. Word 2007 works fine also. It is just that when I click a file that was originally saved as a *.doc file is being opened by Word 2003 and I would like it to be opened by 2007 like the .docx files. It originally did but now for some reason does not.
 
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Big D

Rick Wolfe said:
I believe so. My new Excel 2007 works fine. Word 2007 works fine also.
It is just that when I click a file that was originally saved as a *.doc file
is being opened by Word 2003 and I would like it to be opened by 2007
like the .docx files. It originally did but now for some reason does not.

Simple solution: reset the default file for .DOC to W2007.

Another simple solution: uninstall W2003
 
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Peter Foldes

No it came loaded on the computer.

Then you have a Trial version. OEM,s only load Office as a Trial. Your Trial has expired and that is what is causing your issue

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Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

No it came loaded on the computer.
 
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Rick Wolfe

Solution #1: Tried that but the file still goes back to W2003 even though
the icon indicates it is W2007.

Solution #2: This means that I cannot email any W2003 documents to my
associates that don't have W2007. By removing W2003 my abilities would be
limited.
 
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DDW

Solution #1: Tried that but the file still goes back to W2003 even though
the icon indicates it is W2007.

Solution #2: This means that I cannot email any W2003 documents to my
associates that don't have W2007. By removing W2003 my abilities would be
limited.

Problem #1: You're not quoting anything in your posts. That is a
huge problem for the majority of people reading, since the majority of
people in these groups use a news reader.

DDW
 
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Bob Eyster

I have XP, 2003 and 2007 .DOC on my PC and have no such problems Word 2007
by default saves to 97-2003 Documents. Have no problem with e-mailing
different versions for Word DOC's using Word 2007
 

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