Ughhhhhh!!! Microsoft Word 2007 documents won't open in previous versions of MS Word! Please HELP?

Click that top left windows button and go to the part that says "SAVE AS"

In the menu that appears you'll see one that says Microsoft 97-2003 Document, that's the one you want to use.

Open up your doc, office button in the corner then Save as. Just below where you type the file name there is a drop down menu. Click that and there is a .doc option.

Also, you can download a compatibility viewer for office 2003/XP where you can open word 2007 (.docx) files. I shall edit it in when I find the link. I think there is a way so it saves as a .doc by default too which I shall post in when the computer with office 2007 makes a return.

Good luck and hope this helps!

EDIT: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa... Here is the link for the download of the compatibility pack to edit word office 2007 docs in office 2003. Just download and install like you would with any other program.

In Word

Click the icon on the top left corner

go to the save as menu

and click (Word 97-2003 Document)

and your sorted

a .doc file

Open the document, then click on the office button (big circular button) on the top left of the screen. When the drop down box opens, click on save as, and when the drop down box for that opens, click on "Word 97 2003 document". This will save it in the older version of Word for others and still allow you to enjoy the looks and conveniences of Word 2007.

Also, if you will open a blank document, click on the big button again and in the drop down box click on "Word Options", you can change the settings to save all your documents in "Word 97-2003 document".

#1 Go to your resume

#2 Click the round MS office button at top

#3 Click save as

#4 click the "drop-down" box for "save as type"

#5 click the word 97-2003 selection

#6 click save

Hope this helps

Open up your resume.

Click on the circular, glowing symbol thing in the upper left corner.

Hover the mouse over the option that lets you save and a menu should open up.

Click on the option that lets you save in earlier version of Microsoft Word.

This newer version takes some getting used to.

Well the problem happened with all who use MSW 2007

You can do it so easily

Copy and past the docx to Notepad and then paste it to the normal system

Its the only way

Forget 2007+ versions of MS

Its just waste of time

What you can do is open your document using your computer and re-save a second copy as .RTF or Rich Text Format. You may lose some of the Formatting, but the person will be able to read it on their end. Good Luck.

it should give you the option when you save the document to save as a file thats compatable with previous versions of microsoft Word

file > Save As

In the field below file name, you can choose Word 99-2003 format