Steve:

You are right. ...   The documents the students send me tend to be MS word 
documents.  In fact, I require that on my syllabi for assignments, since 
these are the easiest for me to work with.

What I might do here, just for the heck of it, is prepare a document on the 
laptop in office 2007, and see if I can read it on an office 2003 machine.

I'll let you know what I find out.

73 from tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007


> Tom,
>
> I highly doubt that you'll be unable to read docs that students write in 
> 2007 on
> a Office 2003 machine.
>
> It may be that a very few features won't work in some program when you 
> bring the
> document into 2003, but what types of docs do you get from students?
>
> I don't remember your field, but I'd bet 99% of the docs you get are 
> probably Ms
> Word.  If that's the case, you shouldn't have any problem despite wht 
> their tech
> people say.  MS isn't going to make a product that obsoletes previous 
> versions
> of that same product.  I have Microsoft Office 97 and I can read just 
> about
> anything produced with MsOffice 2003, Office XP, and certainly Office 
> 2000.
>
> Steve, K8SP
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:23 PM
> Subject: update on switch to Office 2007
>
>
> Hi, all.
>
> I just wanted to update everyone who might be interested on my continuing
> saga with Office 2007.
>
> I just got off the phone with the University's Tech Support people. ... My
> initial reason for calling was to ask them to put Office 2003 back on the
> University's laptop computer.
>
> They told me that they hated to do that, since the entire university,
> including the computer labs the students will be using, are switching to
> Office 2007 this summer.
>
> So, if I go back to Office 2003, I won't be able to read any of the
> documents students send me on Office 2007 machines at the University.
>
> So, it now looks like I'm stuck with Office 2007, at least on the 
> University
> computers.
>
> Still haven't heard from Freedom Scientific yet.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to deal with this, other than
> some nice strong tranquilizers?
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>