Other people cannot open my Word 2007 documents

I should have mentioned that as well, duh (slap! to the forehead).

It isn't called "reformat" though. All you are wanting to do is just select the "Save as" and save as whatever older version of Word (or even other program types and versions) as there are there.

It's not labeled on the menu as reformat, but that's what happens when you do it.

Thanks for this thread.
My daughter has just started using a Dell laptop with Vista.
Her Word documents produced the compatibility problem.
She is already saving them as RTF, which helped.

However I also had problems with copying simple JPG files from the Vista machine to an XP machine. The resulting files are all corrupt, either not readable at all, or showing 30%-70% of the image.

Do you have any suggestions about that one?
Thanks,

Word 2007 by default saves documents in a new format (.docx). You can set it to save them as .doc or specify this or another format manually when saving files meant to share with other users. That's totally your choice.
In cases like this, it helps to set Windows Explorer to show the extensions of all files (that's the part behind the dot).

Copying jpg's from Vista to XP shouldn't present any issues. A .jpg is a .jpg.
Please tell how you made the source jpg, how you copy from one machine to another, what program you use to view them on both machines and if you checked in the detail view of Windows Explorer that the file size (in bytes) stays exactly the same.

Kees

Hi Kees,
Tx! I don't believe msoft, changing the default Word extension to docx
(and excuse my ignorance of this sorry fact) But it's clear how to ensure Word compatibility now.

The JPGs:
1. Inserted a camera memory card into the Vista laptop
2. copied the files to C: drive
3. Pictures look OK on Vista machine
4. Copy files from Vista drive C: to USB stick
5. Copy files from USB stick to XP machine
6. All jpgs are corrupted
7. Nature of the corruption: the image is only partially visible, from the top, so the bottom half is grey, top half is part of the picture.
Or the whole image cannot be viewed at all. Msg in Picture viewer: 'Drawing failed'

File size of jpgs remained exactly the same.
Programs used to view: Windows picture viewer, msoft photo editor, Adobe photoshop, all show same corruption.

Have not tried emailing the jpg from Vista to Xp machine.
I was thinking about some weird USB protocol incompatibility.
The USB stick I used was not a USB v2.0 one, but recognized OK by the Vista machine.
Thanks again,

4a. Look at the picture at the USB-stick (the copy) in Vista, using the same program after copying it.
4b. Don't forget to use the Safely Remove Hardware procedure before removing the stick.
4c. Insert it again and repeat 4a.
4d. Look at the same picture at the same USB stick in XP before copying it to the hard disk there.

Just for diagnostics.

Sending the same file by e-mail is another experiment indeed.

Kees