Tom,

If it's really true that you can't read documents from Office 2007 with 
Office 2003 (and I'm not entirely sure it's true despite what your tech 
people say), you'll just have to grit your teeth, square your shoulders, and 
start learning Office 2007.  I think I'd try to find out more about just how 
unreadable those documents are.  Have someone give you something that was 
produced with Office 2007, and see if you can access it.  If you can, then 
you have a reasonable case for going back to 2003.  If not, then welcome to 
the wonderful world of the new Office order.  If John is right, you'll find 
it frustrating, but you won't be stopped in your tracks.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 14:23
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
>
>
>