Monday, June 6, 2011

How To Make Microsoft Office XP & 2003 able to open Microsoft Office 2007 and above File Formats

In order to be able to open Microsoft Office 2007 and above (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc), Microsft Office 2003 and XP (2002) running on Windows XP must do several upgrade and install additional software.

For Microsoft Office XP,
1. You have to make sure that Service Pack 3 is installed, you can download it here
2. Start - Run, then copy - paste this: %programfiles%\Microsoft Office\Office10 and press ENTER
3. Find winword.exe, excel.exe and powerpnt.exe (for Standard version and above), right click on it - properties and click on Version tab
4. Upgrade your Microsoft Word (winword.exe) version to minimum of version 10.0.6804.0, from here
5. Upgrade your Microsoft Excel (excel.exe) version to minimum of version 10.0.6809.0, from here
6. Upgrade your Microsoft PowerPoint (powerpnt.exe) version to minimum of version 10.0.6804.0, from here
7. Download and install Compatibility Pack from here

For Microsoft Office 2003
1. Upgrade to Service Pack 3, download from here
2. Download and install Compatibility Pack from here

That's all you have to do on Windows XP. For any detail information, you can refer here

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