From: Dan on
We just bought our daughter a Macbook. Have heard they will open Windows
Office documents from 07 and Vista but not older than that. Curious if this
is true.
If true are there any downloads which allow Mac to view Windows Office
documents from previous versions, ie: '03, XP, etc. ~ Dan
From: JoAnn Paules on
If she has Office for Mac, then she doesn't need a viewer. Or do you mean
she does not have Office at all?

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"Dan" <Dan(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We just bought our daughter a Macbook. Have heard they will open Windows
> Office documents from 07 and Vista but not older than that. Curious if
> this
> is true.
> If true are there any downloads which allow Mac to view Windows Office
> documents from previous versions, ie: '03, XP, etc. ~ Dan

From: Dan on
We bought the Mac version of Office, however the issue we're trying to
address is if someone sends her a document from an older version of Windows
Office, ie: '03 or XP. The understanding we have is the Mac Office will only
open Windows Office documents from '07 and Vista, nothing older. If true,
hence the need for the download I mentioned in the previous post. ~ Dan

"JoAnn Paules" wrote:

> If she has Office for Mac, then she doesn't need a viewer. Or do you mean
> she does not have Office at all?
>
> --
> JoAnn Paules
> MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
> Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
>
>
>
> "Dan" <Dan(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8B5CFD53-4030-4391-B569-EF89DC318CF6(a)microsoft.com...
> > We just bought our daughter a Macbook. Have heard they will open Windows
> > Office documents from 07 and Vista but not older than that. Curious if
> > this
> > is true.
> > If true are there any downloads which allow Mac to view Windows Office
> > documents from previous versions, ie: '03, XP, etc. ~ Dan
>
> .
>
From: JoAnn Paules on
I really doubt that. I don't do Macs but the Windows version will read
documents that are several versions old. I suspect Mac will too - I'd even
be willing to bet money on that. But if you want to be sure, post your
question in the Offive for Mac newsgroup.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



"Dan" <Dan(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0A587100-D02F-43C6-B9C8-E04C863389A0(a)microsoft.com...
> We bought the Mac version of Office, however the issue we're trying to
> address is if someone sends her a document from an older version of
> Windows
> Office, ie: '03 or XP. The understanding we have is the Mac Office will
> only
> open Windows Office documents from '07 and Vista, nothing older. If true,
> hence the need for the download I mentioned in the previous post. ~ Dan
>
> "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
>
>> If she has Office for Mac, then she doesn't need a viewer. Or do you mean
>> she does not have Office at all?
>>
>> --
>> JoAnn Paules
>> MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
>> Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
>>
>>
>>
>> "Dan" <Dan(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:8B5CFD53-4030-4391-B569-EF89DC318CF6(a)microsoft.com...
>> > We just bought our daughter a Macbook. Have heard they will open
>> > Windows
>> > Office documents from 07 and Vista but not older than that. Curious if
>> > this
>> > is true.
>> > If true are there any downloads which allow Mac to view Windows Office
>> > documents from previous versions, ie: '03, XP, etc. ~ Dan
>>
>> .
>>

From: David Troxell - Encourager Software on
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:40:08 -0700, Dan wrote:

> We just bought our daughter a Macbook. Have heard they will open Windows
> Office documents from 07 and Vista but not older than that. Curious if this
> is true.
> If true are there any downloads which allow Mac to view Windows Office
> documents from previous versions, ie: '03, XP, etc. ~ Dan

Here are two resource pages that might help.

Sharing documents with other versions of Office

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?target=5efbb9f9-d425-4d84-893b-09f1a887a5f81033&clr=99-4-0&parentid=34e2fa72-e14b-4be8-bb90-ad3fb7badb961033&ep=7&CTT=Category&MODE=pv&locale=en-US&usid=56387524-4468-4589-8e51-d1621fc3e944

Click on document

Best practices for working with Windows

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?clr=99-4-0&srcid=5efbb9f9-d425-4d84-893b-09f1a887a5f81033&ep=9&target=7acce321-36fb-48d6-8c76-12cb3a0063ee1033

David


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