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March 15th, 2010, 08:11 PM
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Word 2007 incompatability with older versions of word
I have Windows 7 home premium, Word 2007 with Office Home and student 2007.
Cannot open older word files dating back to Vista, XP, etc. Keep getting message '(file name).doc is not a valid Win32 application Have tried downloading: Compatability pack for 2007 office system all updates for office 2007 incl. security updates and service pack 2 Before loading office/word 2007 I removed works and older versions of word and rebooted, Have rebooted more times than I can remember! Any help appreciated before I remove office 2007 and reload office XP which ran fine! Many thanks 
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March 16th, 2010, 06:15 AM
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Word 2007 incompatability with older versions of word
This is essentially the issue covered at
http://www.gmayor.com/Document_Not_Found.htm. See if re-registering (as described) works first. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Captain Ben" wrote in message ... I have Windows 7 home premium, Word 2007 with Office Home and student 2007. Cannot open older word files dating back to Vista, XP, etc. Keep getting message '(file name).doc is not a valid Win32 application Have tried downloading: Compatability pack for 2007 office system all updates for office 2007 incl. security updates and service pack 2 Before loading office/word 2007 I removed works and older versions of word and rebooted, Have rebooted more times than I can remember! Any help appreciated before I remove office 2007 and reload office XP which ran fine! Many thanks
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March 16th, 2010, 07:28 PM
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Word 2007 incompatability with older versions of word
Thanks for the attempt for assistance but tried your suggested change to
registry with no improvement. There was no %1 at the end of the command? Any other suggestions? once again thanks for the suggested solution regards Ben "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is essentially the issue covered at http://www.gmayor.com/Document_Not_Found.htm. See if re-registering (as described) works first. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Captain Ben" wrote in message ... I have Windows 7 home premium, Word 2007 with Office Home and student 2007. Cannot open older word files dating back to Vista, XP, etc. Keep getting message '(file name).doc is not a valid Win32 application Have tried downloading: Compatability pack for 2007 office system all updates for office 2007 incl. security updates and service pack 2 Before loading office/word 2007 I removed works and older versions of word and rebooted, Have rebooted more times than I can remember! Any help appreciated before I remove office 2007 and reload office XP which ran fine! Many thanks .
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March 17th, 2010, 06:30 AM
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Word 2007 incompatability with older versions of word
In that case, it may be related to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922849
or http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;973904 If neither of those, some users have reported that deleting/renaming the Word data key in the registry has effected a solution HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Captain Ben" wrote in message news  Thanks for the attempt for assistance but tried your suggested change to registry with no improvement. There was no %1 at the end of the command? Any other suggestions? once again thanks for the suggested solution regards Ben "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is essentially the issue covered at http://www.gmayor.com/Document_Not_Found.htm. See if re-registering (as described) works first. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Captain Ben" wrote in message ... I have Windows 7 home premium, Word 2007 with Office Home and student 2007. Cannot open older word files dating back to Vista, XP, etc. Keep getting message '(file name).doc is not a valid Win32 application Have tried downloading: Compatability pack for 2007 office system all updates for office 2007 incl. security updates and service pack 2 Before loading office/word 2007 I removed works and older versions of word and rebooted, Have rebooted more times than I can remember! Any help appreciated before I remove office 2007 and reload office XP which ran fine! Many thanks .
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#5
March 22nd, 2010, 07:05 PM
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Word 2007 incompatability with older versions of word
Thanks for your assistance in trying to help me make this work,
However I am not an IT expert, just a plain user who has worked with windows since 3.1 -Amazed at the progress since Win 95 However also amazed how hard they have to struggle to make just one platform run successfully. I spend more time reformatting hard drives which have corrupted, crashed and just plain have to be upgraded than actually using! This is the last PC I will ever buy! I am to be, just another Mac convert, by the end of the year. Between work and home I have to struggle keeping 7 PC's going, 3 laptops - ex Vista 'abortions' - now '7' and 2 XP desktops. - Life is too short to be trying to finish the work which Microsoft start and can be bothered to sort! - Back to Office XP "Graham Mayor" wrote: In that case, it may be related to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922849 or http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;973904 If neither of those, some users have reported that deleting/renaming the Word data key in the registry has effected a solution HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Captain Ben" wrote in message news Thanks for the attempt for assistance but tried your suggested change to registry with no improvement. There was no %1 at the end of the command? Any other suggestions? once again thanks for the suggested solution regards Ben "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is essentially the issue covered at http://www.gmayor.com/Document_Not_Found.htm. See if re-registering (as described) works first. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Captain Ben" wrote in message ... I have Windows 7 home premium, Word 2007 with Office Home and student 2007. Cannot open older word files dating back to Vista, XP, etc. Keep getting message '(file name).doc is not a valid Win32 application Have tried downloading: Compatability pack for 2007 office system all updates for office 2007 incl. security updates and service pack 2 Before loading office/word 2007 I removed works and older versions of word and rebooted, Have rebooted more times than I can remember! Any help appreciated before I remove office 2007 and reload office XP which ran fine! Many thanks . .
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