If you don't have a version of MS Word that supports it, you can load it using the free OpenOffice / LibreOffice and then "save as" the older format.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Andrew Rowley <[email protected]> wrote: > Word 2007 changed to a zipped, XML based file format (.docx). > > There is an addin to older varions of Word to read 2007 files: > http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/open-a-word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-word-HA010044473.aspx > > Alternatively, the sender might be able to use "save as" in Word and save it > to a Word 2002 file format. > > Regards > > Andrew Rowley > > -- > Andrew Rowley > Black Hill Software Pty. Ltd. > Phone: +61 413 302 386 > > > > On 16/07/2012 6:21 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: >> >> I do trust the sender and apparently they cannot (easily?) send me it as a >> PDF. >> >> Neither Word2002(XP) nor Wordpad properly open it. >> >> I unzipped it and tried sending the XMLs to IE and Firefox and they >> didn't do >> anything. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> -- >> Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> >> http://www.dissensoftware.com >> >> Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel >> >> >> Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, >> you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. >> >> I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, >> especially those from irresponsible companies. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
