[Thinkpad] NEED NEW COMPUTER FOR DAUGHTER

[John Ruschmeyer]

Actually, Microsoft has an add-on for Office (at least as far back as XP)
which will allow it to read Office 2007 formats.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: thinkpad-bounces at stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces at stderr.org] On
Behalf Of David Ross
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:45 PM
To: thinkpad at stderr.org
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] NEED NEW COMPUTER FOR DAUGHTER

> Once caution.  The university this fall is requiring Office 2007
> Professional, which I didn't expect I would have to buy.

The newest version of Word can save files in a format unreadable by
older versions, and for which there is no freely available reader.  This
is a problem we have run into with my son (with documents created by his
teachers).