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?
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Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com
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
Another alternative that may also be useful for this and other
incompatibilities: Download and install Free Apache OpenOffice Suite
at http://www.openoffice.org/ , or LibreOffice, a 2010 split-off from
OpenOffice (when it was unclear whether OpenOffice development could
continue after Oracle
I saw on the 10 o'clock news that MS is offering Cloud based Office 2013
for trial. Not brave enough to try it on my PC(old). I searched a little but
couldn't find a MS link, but found this.
_http://msoffice2013.com/tag/office-15/_
(http://msoffice2013.com/tag/office-15/)
Don't know if