The Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems don't have documents, but Microsoft Word 2007 (sometimes called "Word Vista") and Microsoft Word XP (2002) do. Assuming that's what you meant, here are your choices:
1. In Word 2007, do a Save As and select an earlier version of Word as the file type.
OR
2. On the machine with the earlier version of Word, download and install Microsoft’s free Compatibility Pack.
Note that this still won’t give the older version of Word the newer features of Word 2007, and there’s a good chance any such features will be lost on files processed by the older version.
Also note that Word 2007 may need to have a file converter installed off the installation disk to handle the older version’s file format
Vista and XP are operating systems, they do not have a document format per se. You use a word processing program like MS word to create a document. If you right click on the document and select properties is there a 3 letter description in () after the file name? This can help identify the program that created it. Ms word 2003 is .DOC and Ms Word 2007 is .docx.
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The Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems don't have documents, but Microsoft Word 2007 (sometimes called "Word Vista") and Microsoft Word XP (2002) do. Assuming that's what you meant, here are your choices:
1. In Word 2007, do a Save As and select an earlier version of Word as the file type.
OR
2. On the machine with the earlier version of Word, download and install Microsoft’s free Compatibility Pack.
Note that this still won’t give the older version of Word the newer features of Word 2007, and there’s a good chance any such features will be lost on files processed by the older version.
Also note that Word 2007 may need to have a file converter installed off the installation disk to handle the older version’s file format
Hope that helps.
Vista and XP are operating systems, they do not have a document format per se. You use a word processing program like MS word to create a document. If you right click on the document and select properties is there a 3 letter description in () after the file name? This can help identify the program that created it. Ms word 2003 is .DOC and Ms Word 2007 is .docx.
Open up the document, go to file (or whatever that office vista symbol is at the top left), Save As, Word 97-2003 Document.