word 2007 on line available?

Maurice · May 5, 2010

hello:

I have office 2003, but from time to time, I get documents made with
word2007, is ther any version on line for word 2007?

thanks

Lem · May 5, 2010

Maurice said:
hello:

I have office 2003, but from time to time, I get documents made with
word2007, is ther any version on line for word 2007?

thanks

Word itself is not available for free, but what you want is the free
"Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
File Formats"
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...70-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

Note the requirements for updating both your version of Windows and your
Microsoft Office programs with their respective Service Packs prior to
installing the "Compatibility Pack."

smlunatick · May 5, 2010

hello:

I have office 2003, but from time to time, I get documents made with
word2007, is ther any version on line for word 2007?

thanks

The problem is that Word 2007 was made to use the XML style files as
"standard" file format. The original sender would need to save your
file as the older Word 97-2003 style.

Word 2007 is not a "free" product. You need to purchase it. You
might be able to download the Word 2007 "viewer."

Bubbler · May 5, 2010

Lem said:
Word itself is not available for free, but what you want is the free
"Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File
Formats"
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...70-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

Note the requirements for updating both your version of Windows and your
Microsoft Office programs with their respective Service Packs prior to
installing the "Compatibility Pack."

--
Lem

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Use OpenOffice. www.OpenOffice.org

VanguardLH · May 6, 2010

Bubbler said:
Lem wrote ...

Use OpenOffice. www.OpenOffice.org

Yeah, waste a ton of disk space instead of getting the previewer app:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=3657ce88-7cfa-457a-9aec-f4f827f20cac

Or install the compatibility pack for a version of Office *already*
installed by the OP. Yeah, let's make the user wanting to view a newer Word
format grind through the steep learning curve for a completely different
product. Uh huh, good advice ... not!

Oh yes, like we're not supposed to recognize that your "advice" is nothing
but spam to proseltize a non-Microsoft albeit free product. Free is nice
but not necessarily the best solution, especially when the other solutions
are also free (since the OP already has Office 2003 installed).

Bubbler · May 6, 2010

VanguardLH said:
Yeah, waste a ton of disk space instead of getting the previewer app:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=3657ce88-7cfa-457a-9aec-f4f827f20cac

Or install the compatibility pack for a version of Office *already*
installed by the OP. Yeah, let's make the user wanting to view a newer
Word
format grind through the steep learning curve for a completely different
product. Uh huh, good advice ... not!

Oh yes, like we're not supposed to recognize that your "advice" is nothing
but spam to proseltize a non-Microsoft albeit free product. Free is nice
but not necessarily the best solution, especially when the other solutions
are also free (since the OP already has Office 2003 installed).

Wow, some response! My three PCs all run MS Office, but I have also had
good experience with open source software including Linux and, yes,
OpenOffice. "Steep learning curve"? Not for most folks.

Your "gain" for firing off an opinionated verbal assault on a differing
opinion instead of simply providing useful comments is obviously set pretty
high.

Have a good day and try to relax.

-Bub

VanguardLH · May 7, 2010

Bubbler said:
Wow, some response! My three PCs all run MS Office, but I have also had
good experience with open source software including Linux and, yes,
OpenOffice. "Steep learning curve"? Not for most folks.

Your "gain" for firing off an opinionated verbal assault on a differing
opinion instead of simply providing useful comments is obviously set pretty
high.

Have a good day and try to relax.

-Bub

I also have OpenOffice on another host but will need to take the time to get
as proficient with it as I am with the Office components. However, if I
were looking for a means to make my Office product utilize newer format
files for a newer version of Office, I still wouldn't be trying to dump
OpenOffice on my host as a solution when other free and much smaller
solutions were available.

Installing OpenOffice as the "solution" was way off target and not at all
suitable. However, if someone were looking for a free replacement to Office
then, yeah, OpenOffice is an excellent suggestion providing that requester
is willing to learn the new program. I've already found several tasks that
I do in Word for which there is no counterpart in Writer or I had to go
searching to find a non-obvious workaround and, last I checked, OO can't run
macros written for Office components. But, hey, free sure works for my
personal wallet to keep from emptying it.

The one component that OO is missing is an e-mail client. I've found a few
replacements (I do NOT like Thunderbird whose rules set sucks worse then
Outlook Express for newsgroups but did get just barely okay in v3 of Tbird
for e-mail rules) for an e-mail client, like Evolution (now with a Windows
version), so OO + Evolution would make a formidable replacement but
obviously a *complete* replacement, not just a previewer app or file
converter pack which is a better solution for someone that already has
Office 2003.

Bubbler · May 7, 2010

VanguardLH said:
I also have OpenOffice on another host but will need to take the time to
get
as proficient with it as I am with the Office components. However, if I
were looking for a means to make my Office product utilize newer format
files for a newer version of Office, I still wouldn't be trying to dump
OpenOffice on my host as a solution when other free and much smaller
solutions were available.

Installing OpenOffice as the "solution" was way off target and not at all
suitable. However, if someone were looking for a free replacement to
Office
then, yeah, OpenOffice is an excellent suggestion providing that requester
is willing to learn the new program. I've already found several tasks
that
I do in Word for which there is no counterpart in Writer or I had to go
searching to find a non-obvious workaround and, last I checked, OO can't
run
macros written for Office components. But, hey, free sure works for my
personal wallet to keep from emptying it.

The one component that OO is missing is an e-mail client. I've found a
few
replacements (I do NOT like Thunderbird whose rules set sucks worse then
Outlook Express for newsgroups but did get just barely okay in v3 of Tbird
for e-mail rules) for an e-mail client, like Evolution (now with a Windows
version), so OO + Evolution would make a formidable replacement but
obviously a *complete* replacement, not just a previewer app or file
converter pack which is a better solution for someone that already has
Office 2003.

Thank you for a thoughtful, well presented, and useful response.

-Bub

Tim Slattery · May 7, 2010

VanguardLH said:
Installing OpenOffice as the "solution" was way off target and not at all
suitable.

It depends on the circumstances. If you have Word 2003, and want to
read *.docx files without paying to upgrade to Word 2007, then the
best bet by far is the filter distributed for free by MS that allows
Word 2003 to read those files. If you don't have Word you can install
the free viewer from MS, but that will allow you only to see the
files, not to change them. If you want to edit them, you can either
pay many bucks for Win2007 or download Open Office. Choose whichever
fits your needs and your wallet.

Twayne · May 7, 2010

In

Lem said:
Word itself is not available for free, but what you want is
the free "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats"
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...70-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

Note the requirements for updating both your version of
Windows and your Microsoft Office programs with their
respective Service Packs prior to installing the
"Compatibility Pack."

I don't think that will provide the forward-compatability, will it? I would
imagine a Microsoft Viewer for Word 2007 would at least let him read and
possibly copy a 2007 file to his existing 2003 format. It's worked for me a
few times.

There are timed evaluation versions of 2007 that can be downloaded from MS,
but once that timing is up, that's it; it won't be able to be installed
again.

HTH,

Twayne`

Twayne · May 7, 2010

In

VanguardLH said:
Yeah, waste a ton of disk space instead of getting the
previewer app:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=3657ce88-7cfa-457a-9aec-f4f827f20cac

Or install the compatibility pack for a version of Office
*already* installed by the OP. Yeah, let's make the user
wanting to view a newer Word format grind through the steep
learning curve for a completely different product. Uh huh,
good advice ... not!

Oh yes, like we're not supposed to recognize that your
"advice" is nothing but spam to proseltize a non-Microsoft
albeit free product. Free is nice but not necessarily the
best solution, especially when the other solutions are also
free (since the OP already has Office 2003 installed).

I don't think the OO.o learning curve is that great, but the 2007 one sure
is. But that's a little picky; your opinions are good ones for this case,
IMO.

HTH,

Twayne`

Lem · May 7, 2010

Twayne said:
In

I don't think that will provide the forward-compatability, will it? I would
imagine a Microsoft Viewer for Word 2007 would at least let him read and
possibly copy a 2007 file to his existing 2003 format. It's worked for me a
few times.

There are timed evaluation versions of 2007 that can be downloaded from MS,
but once that timing is up, that's it; it won't be able to be installed
again.

HTH,

Twayne`

I may have been a little terse in my comment, but if you click on the
link, you'll see that the "Compatibility Pack" allows you to "Open,
edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the Open XML
file formats which were introduced to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint beginning with Office 2007." The Compatibility Pack requires
the 2000, 2002, or 2003 versions of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint (or the
2003 viewers for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint).

So, if the OP has Office 2003, installing this Compatibility Pack will
permit him to view, edit, and save documents the documents he receives
that have been created in Word 2007.

VanguardLH · May 8, 2010

Tim said:
It depends on the circumstances. If you have Word 2003, and want to
read *.docx files without paying to upgrade to Word 2007, then the
best bet by far is the filter distributed for free by MS that allows
Word 2003 to read those files. If you don't have Word you can install
the free viewer from MS, but that will allow you only to see the
files, not to change them. If you want to edit them, you can either
pay many bucks for Win2007 or download Open Office. Choose whichever
fits your needs and your wallet.

OpenOffice was NOT an appropriate solution based on what the OP said, which
was:

"I have office 2003"

If they were looking for a *replacement* to Office, or didn't have Office
and wanted a good equivalent suite, yep, then OpenOffice is definitely a
very good suggestion (after you determine what e-mail client to use since
OpenOffice doesn't come with one and e-mail via the Outlook is probably the
most heavily used component of Office, or very close second to Word).

I used Office 2002 up until February this year. I didn't care to move to
Office 2007 and instead moved to Office 2003 but only because I got a
legitimate copy for cheap at eBay. It took months of searching to find
auctions that met my criteria because I wasn't going to fork out more than
$60 for Office 2003 and managed to get the Pro edition for $42. However,
it'll be awhile before Office 2007 drops to my tolerance for pricing. If I
had to lose Office 2003 for some reason, I certainly wouldn't be forking out
the hundreds needed to buy Office 2007. I'd go with OpenOffice and see if
Evolution has yet evolved sufficiently to replace Outlook.

Of course, we're talking about our personal wants versus the costs to a
company of hundreds of users along with the support group where economy
dictates single training and expertise on common software. The OP never
mentioned whether their need was for personal or business use, but that they
already had Office 2003 installed obviated OpenOffice as a solution to
getting support for the newer file formats in Office 2007.

Johnw · May 8, 2010

Maurice submitted this idea :

hello:

I have office 2003, but from time to time, I get documents made with
word2007, is ther any version on line for word 2007?

thanks

Maurice · May 11, 2010

Maurice said:
hello:

I have office 2003, but from time to time, I get documents made with
word2007, is ther any version on line for word 2007?

thanks

thanks all for tips and answers

In fact, I want just to view docx files not to edit them.
I found the free Word Reader from http://www.abdio.com/, small in size
(6.9MB), standalone and requires no extra compatibility packs, instantly
installed, exactly what I'm searching for.

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