From: capitan on
Hello all. I'm having an issue where I had an older version of the
compatibility pack installed on a machine with Office XP, and when I
would try to open a newer version docx or xlsx file, it would say
something like "This is a pre-release version, do you want to download
the new version now?" So I would click yes, download the latest
version, login as admin, uninstall old version, reboot, install new
version, and it still gives me the same message even though I
uninstalled the old version and installed the latest. How can I fix
this problem? Thanks.
From: Jerry on
The latest Office compatibility pack is the 2007 version - nothing newer.
There is one update to it: office2007-kb978380-fullfile-x86-glb.exe maybe
that's what you really need.

"capitan" <me069(a)privacy.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all. I'm having an issue where I had an older version of the
> compatibility pack installed on a machine with Office XP, and when I would
> try to open a newer version docx or xlsx file, it would say something like
> "This is a pre-release version, do you want to download the new version
> now?" So I would click yes, download the latest version, login as admin,
> uninstall old version, reboot, install new version, and it still gives me
> the same message even though I uninstalled the old version and installed
> the latest. How can I fix this problem? Thanks.


From: capitan on
On 3/19/2010 3:23 PM, Jerry wrote:
> The latest Office compatibility pack is the 2007 version - nothing newer.
> There is one update to it: office2007-kb978380-fullfile-x86-glb.exe maybe
> that's what you really need.
>
> "capitan"<me069(a)privacy.com> wrote in message
> news:ho0lvq$ij9$1(a)speranza.aioe.org...
>> Hello all. I'm having an issue where I had an older version of the
>> compatibility pack installed on a machine with Office XP, and when I would
>> try to open a newer version docx or xlsx file, it would say something like
>> "This is a pre-release version, do you want to download the new version
>> now?" So I would click yes, download the latest version, login as admin,
>> uninstall old version, reboot, install new version, and it still gives me
>> the same message even though I uninstalled the old version and installed
>> the latest. How can I fix this problem? Thanks.
>
>

Here is the actual quote:
"This is a pre-release version of the compatibility pack and can open
pre-release office 2007 files only. Do you want to check for a newer
version of the compatibility pack?"

Thanks for the response, I tried your suggested update and I'm still
getting this message.
From: DL on
Uninstall the Compatibility pack via add/remove
Run disk clean up, reboot PC Install latest compatibility pack
See if that helps (PS I assume OfficeXP has been updated)

"capitan" <me690(a)privacy.com> wrote in message
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> On 3/19/2010 3:23 PM, Jerry wrote:
>> The latest Office compatibility pack is the 2007 version - nothing newer.
>> There is one update to it: office2007-kb978380-fullfile-x86-glb.exe maybe
>> that's what you really need.
>>
>> "capitan"<me069(a)privacy.com> wrote in message
>> news:ho0lvq$ij9$1(a)speranza.aioe.org...
>>> Hello all. I'm having an issue where I had an older version of the
>>> compatibility pack installed on a machine with Office XP, and when I
>>> would
>>> try to open a newer version docx or xlsx file, it would say something
>>> like
>>> "This is a pre-release version, do you want to download the new version
>>> now?" So I would click yes, download the latest version, login as
>>> admin,
>>> uninstall old version, reboot, install new version, and it still gives
>>> me
>>> the same message even though I uninstalled the old version and installed
>>> the latest. How can I fix this problem? Thanks.
>>
>>
>
> Here is the actual quote:
> "This is a pre-release version of the compatibility pack and can open
> pre-release office 2007 files only. Do you want to check for a newer
> version of the compatibility pack?"
>
> Thanks for the response, I tried your suggested update and I'm still
> getting this message.