Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Office 2007 Document Conversion

Are you getting documents emailed from somebody who has Office 2007, and CAN'T OPEN THEM? This is usually the case when somebody has the new Vista operating system from Microsoft. It's true that this person has the ability to convert it on their end, but they may not know how to, or just forgot.

When you get a Word document from them, it will have the extention of .docx or a PowerPoint will say .pptx and so on.

Unless you have installed the new File Format Converter from Microsoft, you will have difficulty opening up these documents, because the earlier versions of Office (Like I still use) will not know what to do with such spiffy, special, snazzy-all-important formats. ;)

HERE'S WHAT YOU DO:

Click this link, and it will take you to Microsoft's page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

You will see a download button. Push that. When prompted, select RUN. You'll agree to the terms and so on, and you should be guided through the rest of the process.

Once it's complete, you shouldn't have to restart or anything.

To test it out, try opening the 2007 document now



10 comments:

  1. Thanks! That was easy! You put a lot of time and effort to make our computer use easier. Thank you! Keep up the good work, it is greatly appreciated!

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  2. Ahh, it's all for the love o' the job!

    That's what I keep telling myself. Thanks for the feedback.

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  3. Hello, I think you're terrific.

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  4. Hi Justin. Thanks for your help.

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  5. Hey thanks for the tip.

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  6. I ditto Hollie's comments. :)

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  7. I actually really appreciate this blog.

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  8. Thank you for attending the blog training, everybody, and for the feedback (even though I made you put it in) :)

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  9. I also ditto Hollie's comments. That was super easy!
    Thank you!

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  10. Thanks Justin, I appreciate all of your tips. Thanks for all of the hard work! You are awesome!!! Have a great weekend

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