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