Thread: Opening older Word docs in Vista Office

I've heard a rumor that the older Word documents (and possibly Excel & PowerPoint, etc.) can not be read by the new Vista Office and that you have to download some sort of special reader(s) from Microsoft in order to view them. Has anybody experienced this or heard of it?

I think you are able to open documents from previous versions in the new office 2007 programs, the problem is office 2007 has a new file format which cannot be read on previous versions of office.

Microsoft has released some software to help with that problem.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...686761033.aspx

i hope this answers your question

Okay, that makes more sense. I couldn't get the link posted to work, but I did get this one in the email and it explains, including the "reader" necessary:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...686761033.aspx

Thanks for your help.

hmmm...for some reason the entire link doesn't show. I'll try a different method

office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101686761033.aspx

thats odd, those links seem to work fine for me