Help with Microsoft Home & Student 2007. Please help me!!?

Question

I've installed Word 2007 from Microsoft Home & Student 2007 on my laptop. I'm starting a course overseas next month & I can't bring my printer with me so I need to be able to type assignments on my laptop then save them to a disk & print them from one of the computers in the college IT room.

When I installed Word 2007 it looked completely different from the regular Microsoft Word and when I tried opening a document from Word 2007 on another computer with Microsoft Word it just wouldn't open for me. The contents of the document appeared as jumbled symbols. Am I doing something wrong or is there a way to get this to work for me??

Can anyone please help me?? I'd be so grateful!! Thank you!

Answer 1

You haven't done anything wrong but you are trying to use an earlier version of Word that doesn't recognise the .docx that Word 2007 makes.  If the earlier version of Word had the compatibility pack from Microsoft, it could read it.

You can save files as Word 97-2003 Documents to take for printing or set Word up so it permanently saves in the old format which would probably be better.  It's better in your case to have to remember to save as the new version than the old because you don't want to get to college one day with an assignment that's due in and realise that the copy with you on your disk is Word 2007 type!  This is how to do that:

Open a new document - don't need to type anything.

Choose the funny globe in the top left and then Save or Save as...

When the box comes up to ask where you want to save it, look for the Tools button in the bottom left corner.  Click that and choose Save Options.

Now at the top, use the drop-down arrow to change it from Word 2007 .docx to Word 1997-2003 Document click Okay to save that change.  From now on, all your files will be able to be read on earlier versions of Windows unless you specifically save as .docx

When you get to college, you can try taking a .docx and seeing if the computers can read it but they have to have the compatibility pack on them or they won't be able to.

Now is an excellent time to make any Word documents you can think of and just find your way around all the changes before you have assignments due - it will take some learning the new system but some time spent playing with it now will pay off in familiarity and saved time when you get to college.

Have a great time at college and remember, assignments are a chance to find out if you know the subject well and exams are only another way of the staff making sure.  :-)

Answer 2

MS office 2007 has a completly different interface that older verions of MS Office.

To open your file on another computer you can do one of 2 things

1) when you save a file, save it as an office 97 to 2003 format instead of the standard format.

2) MS has a patch to be able to open office 2007 files on older versions of office.

Answer 3

Word 07 can't be viewed by older versions of Word. But here is the good news when you choose to save your document in Word 07, you can tell it to save it as a 97-03 document and then it can be opened by any Word software.

Simply click the Icon in the upper left corner of Word 07 and then choose "save as" and a menu will pop up, choose 97-03.