kennysarmy Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Fore-warned is fore-armed so they say... I am not currently aware of too many students coming in with 2007 docs they cannot open in school. But it is bound to happen and with no plans to u/g to 2007. What should I have prepared. What statement could I issue to help teachers at the front-line. Many thanks.
mrforgetful Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 There is a compatability pack on the Microsoft website that you install on your 2003 machines and makes it so you can open and edit 2007 documents in 2003.
Geoff Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 If you install the Office 2007 compatability pack, Office 2003 applications can load/save in the new format. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en It's an MSI, so it's trivial to roll out to all your machines.
Diello Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 We had a 2-step process - 1) Mass communication to all students that if using O2k7 at home, they must save to 2003 format. 2) Deploy Compatibilty Pack - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en
Gatt Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Theres should be an add-in that you can download to allow Office 2003 to read Office 2007 Documents This is why we've decided to upgrade to Office 2007, at moment I'm starting to roll them out side-by side..
mrforgetful Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Yikes!! 4 replys on the trot!! But I won on speed! I knew it would knock me down the list if I'd gone to find the link haha.
Geoff Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 But I won on speed! I knew it would knock me down the list if I'd gone to find the link haha. I could of cheated and used my unholy mod powers and deleted your reply.
mrforgetful Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 You could, but you're too much of a decent guy for that
chalkwellstu Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 You could, but you're too much of a decent guy for that brown nose .......
kennysarmy Posted January 15, 2008 Author Posted January 15, 2008 If you install the Office 2007 compatability pack, Office 2003 applications can load/save in the new format. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en It's an MSI, so it's trivial to roll out to all your machines. Maybe I am missing something - but I downloaded an exe - is it possible to extract the MSI from this? Cheers.
Geoff Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Well, with 7-Zip on my machine it's just a case of Right click -> Extract archive. Oh, also I forgot to mention above, if you do install the Office 2007 compatibility pack and you use WSUS for patch management make sure you enable the Office 2007 category. Some of the updates/security fixes apply to the compatibility pack.
kennysarmy Posted January 15, 2008 Author Posted January 15, 2008 no worries sorted it F:\>FileFormatConverters.exe /extract:f:\temp cheers to myself
kennysarmy Posted January 15, 2008 Author Posted January 15, 2008 OK. Now can anyone give me a URL where I can download some test 2007 files to see if it works thanks.
Geoff Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Try this google search. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=test+filetype%3Adocx
kennysarmy Posted January 15, 2008 Author Posted January 15, 2008 awesome. deployed on test machine and running. will deploy to a suite tomorrow...but all looks good cheers all
georgebush Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 I'm waiting for the fun to start with this now, the school we do a joint 6th form with has apparently migrated to 2007 and whilst we have the compatibility pack I'm certain this will cause problems of some kind.
Heebeejeebee Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 There is a compatability pack on the Microsoft website that you install on your 2003 machines and makes it so you can open and edit 2007 documents in 2003. Does anyone else find that it tends not to open any 2007 files though? We have the latest version here and we get 'unable to open' messages every time we use it. HBJB
boomam Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 Im hoping that it works fine tbh. A few of the kids, and staff, must have gotten new computers at home as more and more are wondering why *.docx doesnt work at the moment..
leeshellard Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Guide on deplying Office compatibility pack using MSI in Ad http://mkeadle.org/?p=113 Hope it helps some one 2
elsiegee40 Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 @leeshellard - saved me asking that question. Ta!
alanh Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Deploy OpenOffice alongside MS Office 2003. Personally I'd use OpenOffice - works on just about anything and, you can give a CD to the pupils with it on. I dumped M$ a long time ago and went a combination of Mac and Ubuntu - never looked back..... Neoffice reads and writes M$ files in .docx format.....
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