On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:53:50 -0700, Hollie
<Hollie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> when I save any document a letter gets added to the end of the file so that
> it cannot be opened. Here is a file that I saved last night TAFE application
> Hollie.docx and I could not open it using windows XP
First, this has nothing to do with Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
Second, it's not that a letter gets added to the end of the file name,
it's that Office 2007 by default uses a whole different file format
than earlier versions of Office did. Word's new file format is called
..docx, instead of the older .doc format.
So the problem is that if you create a .docx file in Word 2007
(regardless of whether you are running Word under Windows Vista or
XP), another computer running an older version of Word (again, whether
it's running Word under Vista or XP) can not read it.
There are two possible solutions:
1. When you create the file in Word 2007, instead of doing a "Save,"
do a "Save as," and choose "Word 97-2003 document." That will save it
in the old .doc format instead of the new .docx one, and allow it to
be read by any version of Word.
2. Have the other computer, the one running the older version of Word,
go to
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
or
http://tinyurl.com/y5a879
and install the "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel,
and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats"
The second solution is the better one.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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