Microsoft Word: Compatibility
How to save a word 2007 document to be compatible with Word 97-2003 When I first started using Microsoft Word 2007 I had no idea that the files were not compatible with earlier versions of Word. It was not until I had sent a document created using Word 2007 in an email and received complaints from recipients not being able to open the file. At first I thought there was something wrong, because I had seen no mention of incompatible files on the internet or the packaging Office 2007 came in. Finally I realized that the file extensions were different. The old Word 97-2003 files were saved as .doc and the new Word 2007 are saved as .docx.I had just presumed that the programs would be compatible because all earlier upgrades had been. However they were not compatible and Microsoft word 97-2003 could not open a file with the extension .docx because it did not exist when these programs were created. Luckily Word 2007 includes a feature that lets you save a document to be compatible...