{"id":98,"date":"2008-04-15T06:42:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T13:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/?p=98"},"modified":"2008-12-19T08:19:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T15:19:49","slug":"how-to-open-office-2007-files-with-earlier-versions-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/how-to-open-office-2007-files-with-earlier-versions-of-office\/","title":{"rendered":"How to open Office 2007 files with earlier versions of Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Microsoft released Office 2007 last year, they also changed the default file format that Word, Excel and Powerpoint files are saved. Office 2007 files add an &#8220;x&#8221; to the end of the file extension. For example Word documents used to have the file extension of <em><strong>.doc<\/strong><\/em> however the new Word 2007 files are saved with the extension <em><strong>.docx<\/strong><\/em> by default. Excel files now end with <em><strong>.xlsx<\/strong><\/em>, and Powerpoint files end with <em><strong>.pptx<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a pre-2007 version of Word, Excel or Powerpoint you will need to download and install the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&amp;displaylang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats<\/a> to convert and view the new file type.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you have Word 2007 and would like all your new files to be saved in the older, more compatible file format press the Office Button &gt; Word Options &gt; Save tab &gt; change &#8220;Save files in this format&#8221; to &#8220;Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc)&#8221; as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wordoptions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99\" title=\"Word Options\" src=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wordoptions.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wordoptions.jpg 674w, https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wordoptions-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wordoptions-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/how-to-open-office-2007-files-with-earlier-versions-of-office\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print This Article\" title=\"Print This Article\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/how-to-open-office-2007-files-with-earlier-versions-of-office\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\">Print This Article<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Microsoft released Office 2007 last year, they also changed the default file format that Word, Excel and Powerpoint files are saved. Office 2007 files add an &#8220;x&#8221; to the end of the file extension. For example Word documents used to have the file extension of .doc however the new Word 2007 files are saved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}