For those of you who are using the latest version of Office . . . are you having to save your Word files as an older version? Most of the publishers (print) that I work with are unable to open the files unless I save it this way. The new version came preloaded on my laptop, so it's not like I'm out any money, but I can't see a benefit with having this software if it's not compatible with what publishers are using.

I've been using the latest Office and haven't been too happy with it so far. I haven't had any problems having Word files load in older versions but I also haven't encountered too many Office applications from more than one or two versions back so I don't have too much to add.

I'm not a big fan of Office usually anyhow but the universality of it made me get used to it. I really preferred Wordperfect because it was so well designed but alas, it's impossible to do anything with a file saved in their formats for the most case anymore.

I know a lot of people have been ahving compatibly problems with Office. For the last versions they didn't change the file type, but I understand that they need to change it because of all the new features. While I like the features, older version intergration is cruical to keep a good consumers happy.

I prefer OpenOffice because I can export to whatever file type I need. Its free and great, I installed it on all my family members computers.

I am using Microsoft Office 2003; so far I’m not having any problem with the software. FYI, I’m also a writer who writes on various topics. You must mean Office 2007, the latest version. I don’t want to upgrade to the latest because as Ashmin already said, it has lots of bugs in it. This problem is common among new releases.

I've just gotten used to saving as the older version file, because when I've saved it as 2007 I've noticed it isn't compatible with a whole lot of other people's/company's systems. It was kind of de-motivating for me, because before I got a newer machine I was running into browser compatibility problems frequently. I got the new machine, and now I'm the one who has outgrown "The World".

I guess we are not supposed to be in sync with "The World". That would make life too easy.

Microsoft Word 2007 is a huge change from the last major roll out of Office's Word in 2003. The trickiest part is the 6 or 7 submenus that require familiarity and the .docx file type that must be avoided but is the default file type for Word 2007. I must say that the Power Point is a much better product than in 2003 in terms of usability and templates. Another great feature is One Note. Check out this link and comments for rave reviews on the utility of One Note for those of us who have moments of inspiration or epiphany and need a quick and easy way to categorize these thoughts. The upgraded Excel is almost a completely different species in the progam family- very restrictive but also very logical.

http://lifehacker.com/399556/five-best-not...ls#viewcomments

I'd say- do as I have done- if you have a partitioned hard drive- keep your 2003 or XP version of Office on one partition and load 2007 Office for Vista on the other partition and spend time getting comfortable with the navigation.... through Word and through One Note. I'd be willing to bet that you will be inspired to switch to the 2007 version eventually.

I cannot begin to calculate the hours I've lost re-learning Word with Office 2007. It's a totally different program with different (not more intuitive, just different menus) and diminished support for keyboard shortcuts. Likewise with Outlook 2007...

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