To help ensure that you can open files in these new formats, Microsoft has developed a Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats. In short, given that Bronze Lounger and BruceR know much more about MS Office software than I do, I remain somewhat confused about whether and why my special situation (no older MS Office programs or viewers installed) needs to have Compatibility Packs.Ĭompatibility Pack for the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats If that is true, then with viewers but without Compatibility Packs, I should be able to read not only MS Office documents created by the latest (2013) MS Office software, but also MS Office documents created by previous MS Office software. To me, BruceR’s second clause in his “Compatibility Packs allow newer formats to be opened with older programs, not older formats to be opened with newer programs” means that means that Compatibility Packs are not needed to open documents created with older (pre-2013) MS Office programs.Īnd that implies that the latest (2013) viewers DO open older formats as well as the latest formats. I wondered even more strongly when I read BruceR’s later statement that “Compatibility packs allow newer formats to be opened with older programs, not older formats to be opened with newer programs,” because my new laptop doesn’t have any MS Office programs installed, and therefore my new laptop doesn’t have any older MS programs installed. Therefore, when I read BruceR’s statement that I “also need to download and install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats” I wondered why he thought I needed to do that. downtown Bronze Lounger (Post #3) and BruceR WS Lounge VIP (Post #4) for confirming that I did download the latest viewers (which would view documents created by MS Office 2013).īut when I read Bronze Lounger’s post that said “Compatibility pack is for earlier versions of MS Office so they can open and edit more recently created Office document formats like docx and xlsx, etc.,” I concluded that I didn’t need Compatibility Packs since my new laptop does not have any Microsoft Office software installed, and therefore my new laptop does not have any “earlier versions of MS Office” installed. Thanks to jwitalka Super Moderator (Post #2) for moving my initial post and hence this thread to General productivity, and to F.U.N. The links from that page are to the same download pages you found by searching. No Office Compatibility packs allow newer formats to be opened with older programs, not older formats to be opened with newer programs. How to open new file formats in earlier versions of Microsoft Office “The Office Compatibility Pack can also be used together with Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files that are saved in the new file formats.” Yes, but you also need to download and install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats An alternative to the Microsoft website above was, but after reading it I was not confident that its links would get me the latest viewers. Thanks for any comments, suggestions, or help. Am I correct in thinking that those are useful only if someone sends me a document (be it Word, Excel, or PowerPoint) that is in a pre-2013 version, or even is in an ancient version that Microsoft no longer supports? My second question is: The locations from which I downloaded the viewers also urged me to download and install Compatibility Packs. My first question is: Did I really download the latest viewers, capable of reading MS 2013 documents? (The word “Latest?” of course is my reminder that I’m not sure I have the latest viewers.) That site’s items 3, 4, and 5 gave me a link to each: So after doing a Google search for “Latest Microsoft Office Viewers” (without the quotes) I came up with several Microsoft viewer websites, but the one that I thought was most likely to provide viewers for the latest Office documents was WordPerfect 圆 can open and even edit these Word documents and probably Excel documents, but I would rather have an independent Microsoft viewer look at them first, before anything gets edited. But from time to time someone sends me a Microsoft Office Document: usually MS Word, but sometimes MS Excel, and occasionally MS PowerPoint. My “Office” program is not Microsoft, but instead is WordPerfect Office 圆. I am using Win7sp1 on a new Dell 64-bit laptop. I have downloaded viewers for MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but I have not yet installed them because I am not sure they are the latest viewers, capable of viewing documents created by the latest MS Office programs, which I think are dated 2013.
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