Emailing Excel Documents From Vista

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Emailing Excel Documents From Vista

#1 casa1997

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Posted 26 July 2007 - 06:35 PM

When I create an Excel document and email it to another computer not running Vista they receive it as jibberish. How can I fix this.

#2 noaim

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Posted 26 July 2007 - 08:27 PM

casa1997, on Jul 26 2007, 06:35 PM, said:

When I create an Excel document and email it to another computer not running Vista they receive it as jibberish. How can I fix this.

have u tried puttin the excel file on a disk and opening it on the other computer it might be excel not working....

#3 Monty007

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Posted 27 July 2007 - 06:17 AM

Are you running Ofiice 2007? and you friend 2003? If so it wont work, if you want you can email me the file and I will ahve alook for you as I run both on diffent PCs.

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Posted 27 July 2007 - 08:51 AM

Microsoft supplies a free Compatibility Pack for pre-2007 versions of Office programs and viewers (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) to allow those programs and viewers to open (for programs and viewers) and save (for programs only, not viewers) files in the new file formats used by Office 2007.

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats:

"By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. The Compatibility Pack can also be used in conjunction with the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new formats. For more information about the Compatibility Pack, see Knowledge Base article 924074."

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

How to view Word 2007 and Excel 2007 files by using Word Viewer 2003 and Excel Viewer 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925180

How to use earlier versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word to open and save files from 2007 Office programs:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074

How to install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack so that you can use earlier versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word to open and to save files from 2007 Office programs:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923505

If you don't want others to be "bothered" with installing the Compatibility Pack, another option is to use the Save As command in Office 2007 programs to save the files you want to email in the old (pre-Office 2007) file formats.

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