How can I read/convert Microsoft Word 2007 documents to Word 2002?

Question

I just got a new laptop this summer before going to college, a HP Pavilion Entertainment Notebook PC with Windows Vista. Anyway, it came with a free, limited use (60 day, maybe?) version of Microsoft Office, including Word. Anyway, it warned me that after October 31st it would go to a limited-use version that was only a viewer. So, I uninstalled it and installed a full copy of Microsoft Office, in this case a 2002 version according to the About file.

Now, with my Word 2007 program, I mostly saved documents in the 97-2003 format. However, I saved 12 documents in Word 2007's default "DOCX File" format. Well, turns out those aren't backwards compatable. Word 2002 won't read them, and Notebook and Wordpad just give gobiltygook when I try to open it with them.

So, is there any way I could convert the files to an earlier version of word, or open them with something and copy the text to a Word 2002 document?

Answer 1

download this
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
on mircosoft.
search on google: word 2007 to Word 2002 microsoft
then check the "Download details: Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word ..." site

Answer 2

Download the following:

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats

Brief Description
Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.

For those that have older Office products installed, the Compatibility Pack is located at the following site:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101686761033.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

Note: If you use Microsoft Word 2000 or Microsoft Word 2002 to read or write documents containing complex scripts, please see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925451 for information to enable Word 2007 documents to be displayed correctly in your version of Word.

Note#2: You can also download the newest Powerpoint Viewer for 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en

Answer 3

Install OpenOffice. Open new files. Save as old MS version, ODT format, export as PDF, or whatever.

http://www.openoffice.org

Answer 4

The easiest way is to open them in office 2007 then save as an earlier format.

Answer 5

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

Here is the link to a converter to allow Office 2003 to open 2007 documents.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

"Save as" them and in the box under where you type the file name, you can choose which version of the Word document you want to save it as.

Answer 8

just send it through email and the computer will open the word version that the document was originally created in. Its really easy I do it all the time.

Answer 9

You could try saving them as a .htm or .html.

Answer 10

just change the end of the file name to .doc instead of .docx