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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: comda on January 21, 2010, 03:10:56 PM

Title: opening Office 2007 in a diff program
Post by: comda on January 21, 2010, 03:10:56 PM

OK I think that this program change is dumb, anyway my school uninstalled word perfect 12 and installed office 2007. Is there a program that can open these projects i wrote on office 2007?

Title: Re: opening Office 2007 in a diff program
Post by: Allan on January 21, 2010, 03:31:23 PM

http://www.ehow.com/how_4898107_use-microsoft-word-wordperfect.html

Title: Re: opening Office 2007 in a diff program
Post by: comda on January 21, 2010, 05:57:38 PM

this tells me how to open wordperfect in office but i want to use word perfect to open office.

Title: Re: opening Office 2007 in a diff program
Post by: soybean on January 21, 2010, 10:28:36 PM

Quote from: comda on January 21, 2010, 05:57:38 PM

i want to use word perfect to open office.

But, you said,

Quote from: comda on January 21, 2010, 03:10:56 PM

... my school uninstalled word perfect 12 and installed office 2007.

You're not making sense here.  ::)

Title: Re: opening Office 2007 in a diff program
Post by: Allan on January 22, 2010, 05:43:47 AM

You said you want to use Office to open documents you created in Word Perfect. Please take a deep breath and start again. What is it that you want to do?

Title: Re: opening Office 2007 in a diff program
Post by: comda on January 22, 2010, 09:37:06 AM

I'm sorry, I don't have office 2007 but i have to use it at school and when i do use it at school and i need to take it home word perfect 12 won't open it. I need word 12 to open office files.

Title: Re: opening Office 2007 in a diff program
Post by: patio on January 22, 2010, 10:21:13 AM

Install Open Office at home...it's FREE ...and works with all Office versions.

Title: Re: opening Office 2007 in a diff program
Post by: Spoiler on January 22, 2010, 10:27:48 AM

I think you will need to upgrade to version 14 to do that....

http://www.softsea.com/review/WordPerfect-Office-Standard-Edition.html

Title: Re: opening Office 2007 in a diff program
Post by: soybean on January 22, 2010, 10:28:55 AM

OpenOffice.org 3 can open Word 2007 files in the .docx format, but it cannot save in that format.  So, assuming you want to edit files you take home from school, you could save them in Word 97-2003 format, that is, the .doc format, at school before you take them home.  That way, you can edit them at home with OpenOffice and save them to the older Word format which can then be opened at school with Word 2007.

Title: Re: opening Office 2007 in a diff program
Post by: patio on January 22, 2010, 10:31:11 AM

Excellent point Soybean...