expatman Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I installed Office 2010 (on Windows 7) and now all my existing documents (most in Word97 or Excel97) format can only be opened in read-only mode ! Supposedly this is the default (what a stupid choice that is !) and it can be turned off, but the directions for doing so don't work. All the appropriate boxes were unchecked, Office apps closed, and I even rebooted the system, but the "fix" still doesn't work !!!! Anyone else run into this screw-up by Microsoft ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I don't think your problem is related to Office, it is Windows 7 that is the problem Read this thread and I think you will be able to solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expatman Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 I don't think your problem is related to Office, it is Windows 7 that is the problem Read this thread and I think you will be able to solve the problem. http://www.thaivisa....-old-hp-laptop/ Yes, it was a Windows file security setting problem - I granted full control to everyone and had no problem opening, editing and saving old files, You would think Microsoft would produce an appropriate error message in cases like this ????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aarn Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 why not just install libreoffice (latest version is 3.2? - google it). It's free, works brilliantly with my Win7 starter on a toshiba netbook, no,no,no to MSOffice forever... AA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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