Problems with Office 2007

From time to time we are finding a student who is using Word 2007 or Office 2007 at home and has saved their work in the docx file format. The result is that they can not continue with their work at school.

At school we are using Office 2003 and we do not have immediate plans to change to Office 2007. The new features of Office 2007 provide no real productivity advantage at this point.

So that students with Office 2007 or Word 2007 at home can work between school and home easily we suggest that students save their work in the doc format that is compatible with Office 2003 and before. There are instructions here for this.

http://www.uow.edu.au/its/userguides/UOW037922.html

It is also possible to change the default in Word 2007 so that it always saves in the .doc format by following the instructions on the following link.

http://www.walterglenn.com/2007/01/13/save-as-doc-instead-of-docx-in-word-2007/

Please also remember that all computers in the school have Open Office installed on them. Open Office (www.openoffice.org) is free for anyone to download and is also on the CD that all students get when they enroll at the school. It is very good software and, for the record, this article was written using Open Office.