Tips & Tricks

By Sandra Rosenzweig
     
      Here's the deal: Your early-adopter client has switched to Microsoft Office 2007, and she's sent you several email messages containing attachments full of Cuneiform, Cyrillic, and Fraktur characters. Here's what you can do. (1) For Office XP or Office 2003 with at least SP1 (Service Pack 1), download and install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats (http://www. microsoft.com/downloads). It permits you to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. (2) Return the attachments to your client and ask her to open each attachment in the Office 2007 program that created it, then Save As, then select Word 97?2003 Document. Ask her to return the resulting files to you, and from now on to save files for you in Compatibility Mode.
     

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