Re Microsoft Office

[robin8495]

i have Microsoft Office 7, can I open pages of work created in Microsoft 10, & what differences are there in the two progrms?

[ChuckFickens]

Your question doesn't make any sense.

I think you are getting confused between Microsoft windows, which is an operating system (7 is the latest version of windows) and office, which is a group of programs for creating documents of various types. (2010 is the latest version of Office.)

If you have windows7 you can't open any documents created in any version of office without extra software installed, such as a version of office, or one of the free alternatives.

[MarkRae]

Perhaps the OP means Office 2007?

[ChuckFickens]

yeah I guess they could, in which case the answer is yes you can open documents created in office 2010 and there is not a lot of difference between the two versions other than cosmetic ones for the average user.

[ChuckFickens]

Or they really do have office 7..... which I think would be the official name for office95 if memory serves me correct....

[VHG]

I was going to ask earlier but got detracted, but I think he means Office 2007 and Office 2010.

These two versions of Office are similar (under the covers), the big changes were between office 2003 and office 2007.

So you should be able to open anything created in Office 2010 in Office 2007, though make sure you have all the fixes on top of Office 2007 first.

Link below, this will tell you the differences (note that Office comes in many different "packages" and each contains different products so it depends what package you have).

http://en.wikipedia.o...Microsoft_Office_2010

[robin8495]

I'm sorry if I did not make myself clear. The point was that I do have 'Microsoft Office' which is 'the' name/program containing 10 sections all for issue year 2007.
These are applications such as - ACCESS-EXCEL- WORD-TOOLS-etc, These applications are all listed as 'Microsoft Office xxxxxx 2007' The problem was that my computer had been upgraded a few weeks ago and when it was returned to me, I noticed that in the course of the upgrade the engineer had replaced my 'Microsoft Office' with the '2007' issue when my program had been the '2010' issue. Of course I am well aware that new/updated programs are marketed that are not always the same, (there would of course be no point in marketing an update that was the same as the old one). The engineer that made the mistake has readily accepted his error, and the correction requested by me of course. My question therefore to TAB seemed simple, as I had various Accounts/Excel/Publisher/Word, etc documents that had been created in the 2010 issue and of course some of my clients have only the 2007 issue so I wanted to pre-empt any problems they might have by getting the answer first. Needless to say I have since my TSB question resolved the matter, but I did think I could get a quick result through TSB. VHG seems to have understood my question so thanks to you, also thank you ChuckFickens, you have been a great help in my earlier questions.