Office 2007 and Older Versions

If you have an older version of Office and someone sends you a document natively created in Office 2007, did you know you won’t be able to open it unless you install the following ‘patch’ from Microsoft? (Make sure all windows updates have been applied before you run this file).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Office Viewers and Alternatives

If you have someone that sends you a Word, Excel or Powerpoint document and you don’t have Office on your computer, you don’t need to run out and buy those products. Microsoft has free downloads for viewers/printers available for download from their website.

Word 97-2003 Viewer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en

Excel 97-2003 Viewer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c8378bf4-996c-4569-b547-75edbd03aaf0&DisplayLang=en

Powerpoint 2003 Viewer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&DisplayLang=en

Powerpoint 2007 Viewer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&DisplayLang=en

Word 2007 and Excel 2007 Viewer Instructions:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925180