Office 2010 documents

[srobinson0709]

my office has some people on office 2000 with compatability pack 2007 installed and some on 2007 when we saved in 2007 the 2000 people could open any document and excel spreadsheet, now i have upgraded the 2007 people to 2010 and the 2000 people cant open any doc saved in 2010 seems like the compatability pack is not working anyone know why?

 

[cmeagan656]

Have you downloaded and installed the Office 2010 compatibility pack?

Hope this helps.

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[lionelhill]

[rant mode]
To be honest, the compatibility pack drives me up the wall. I supply data and information in Excel2007. The very existence of the compatibility pack means I cannot use any Excel2007 features whatsoever, so I might just as well be using Excel2003. I've had several instances where I used Excel2007 conditional formatting to express fairly important information (e.g. whether a change in value is upwards or downwards). Clients opened in Excel2003, got the wordy and largely uninteligible warning that the data might look odd, disregarded it (who doesn't??), saw a spreadsheet that looked fine, and totally misinterpreted the data, because it was missing critical information that Excel2003 could not disply.

At best it's meant follow-up questions from puzzled clients. At worst it's meant a client leaving with the belief everything had gone up, because they hadn't got any arrows pointing down.

Now whenever I send spreadsheets to clients using a standardised Excel2007 scheme, I have to add a cell finding the Excel version number and extra conditional formatting to blank large areas of data and replace them with express instructions to re-open in Excel2007, in vast red letters. It's a real inconvenience.

[/rant]

So in my belief, if you've got users on a variety of systems, it's actually better if the 2000 users can't open 2010 documents. Unless your 2010 users are incredibly well-trained in not using 2010 features. But it depends on your work-practices, of course.

 

[srobinson0709]

Thanks to lionelhill & cmeagan656 a few weeks ago i went onto Microsofts site and did download this pack but for some reason did not work now i have found out they just updated the pack so now i am a happy camper, thanks again guys my Office 2000 people feel like real people again LOL

thanks.