Microsoft Office 2003

[huffman]

Microsoft has stopped supporting Office 2003. I am not crazy about getting the latest version. The main reason for not wanting to get the newest is first cost and also I have 10 years of more of MS Word that uses the .doc format. Many of these I update fairly often.

Does anyone know what the last version of Word that used the .doc format?


Thank you

 

[fireberd]

I have (had) Office 2003 Professional. I have started using Libre Office and so far no problems for word documents and for existing Publisher documents that I have.

I have been looking at other e-mail programs. I've been trying Thunderbird and Windows Live Mail. So far Thunderbird is slightly ahead but I haven't settled on a replacement for Outlook 2003.

 

[Kari]

DOC files can be opened in all versions of Word, including Word 2013. Additionally Word 2013 lets you save as DOC instead of DOCX by selecting Save as type: Word 97-2003 Document:

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Kari

 

[huffman]

Thank you both. That was good info.

I did not know I could save documents as doc in the new word..
I also plan to use Outlook and be able to import my old contact list and have it work.

Thanks a million

 

[strollin]

The same goes for Excel files too. Excel 2013 can open and save Office 97/2003 files.

 

[Kari]

The same goes for Excel files too. Excel 2013 can open and save Office 97/2003 files.

It's a global feature in Office 2013. I still use a database created with Access 97, later converted to Access 2003 and now working with it on Access 2013.