After I upraded to Vista I loaded office 2003 with word 2003. Every document I had backed up from my XP would only open in Note pad. The only other option was Acrobat reader which said it couldn't open my documents. The only way I could save documents was in rich text format.
I downloaded the 60 day trial version of Microsoft home and student 2007 and my problems were gone. I could pretty much see the writing on the wall so I went out and bought it a couple days later.
Download and try it, I am sure you will like it.
Just got a new Compaq with Vista installed. The included Word is only good for a trial period. Will other versions of Word work on Vista? I think I read somewhere that word2003 would be compatible? Thanks for any help !

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