How to Open “Office 2007” files in “Office 2003”?

This is being a common issue nowadays. Imagine one of your friends clients mail you a very Important Word 2007 document to your Pc which has Office 2003.Ofice 2007 use new file formatting/extension .Old office 2007 uses .docx,.pptx and .xlsx instead of .doc , .xls and .ppt.The new file system took lesser space than old one but it still new. If the sender knows that you are using office 2003 it has some possibility to send you the file using old format. But if he/she doesn’t have the third eye. Pity you.

Ok don’t phone and blame on him. Here s the solution.

Go to the location where the file saved.

Now choose Organize or directly the Files and Folder options /Files and Search Options (in vista and windows 7) from the menu bar of the windows explorer.

The dialog box appears. Choose view tab and find the check box of Hide extensions for known file types.

Uncheck it(it is checked by default but if you  changed this setting before, leave it)

Click OK

You will see the extension of the files (in this case .docx).Right click and Rename the extension (.docx) to .doc.

Hit Enter and now it will be easily opened with Word 2003.

Microsoft has released small programme for Office 2003 users for opening Office 2007 documents.  Click here to Download  and you never need any other conversions

What a simple. But there might be some errors in the document you have converted if it used Word 2007 formatting. 

There is a solution for that too.

Login to  http://docx-converter.com/   and upload your document (which is going to convert)

Choose the format you need the document to be converted (there is every File Format you can imagine)

Give your email address.

You will receive the link via email to download your document in required format.

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