Do documents produced on Microsoft Office 2003 work on Microsoft Office 2007?

Question

I have quite a few important documents on Microsoft Office 2003 but was thinking of upgrading to Microsoft Office 2007. If i copy my documents onto disc, will i be able to reinstall them onto Microsoft Office 2007 and they still work?

Answer 1

Yes, you can still open them all.

The only difference is that new documents in 2007,won’t open in 2003 unless you save them in the earlier format, but if you do that, you might lose some of the new features.

Answer 2

Yes they will work. Not so the other way, 2003 will not recognize or open 2007 documents.

Answer 3

Absolutely. MS Office 07 is very nice, but there are a lot of changes.

The only advice I can give you is to make sure when you save your documents, do a File > Save as > then in the file type save it as an older version. You only need to do this if you will be using an older version as well as the new one.

Best of luck.

Answer 4

Yes you can open your documents in 2007. The only thing is when you save a 2007 word doc it WON'T open in any other previous ones (2003 etc) but you can install this:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en
from the micosoft website so you can save it as 2003 document.

Hope this helps

Answer 5

Yes. It will be recognized on Office 2007.

Answer 6

Yes all versions of Office products are backward compatible

Answer 7

You should have no problem, but then again you are dealing with MS Word so there's no telling what will happen. But I reckon you'll be OK. I did the same a while ago and everything worked fine.

Answer 8

Certainly as I upgraded and it works for me.

Nessie x

Answer 9

Yep.

Answer 10

yes, and visa versa