MS Works 7 - Doc Not recognised by other software

bigal42,

Thanks for using the Dell Community Forum.

What versions of MS Office are you using when you try to read teh documents in MS Works 7.  What operating systems are on the computers.

Thanks for your reply

 

I do not have MS Office on my system, just MS Works Ver 7. I have just received a Document via e-mail attachment and when I open it, it is complete garble. I have managed to send the same Doc at work. I believe it was sent using MS Office 2000. So, When I receive it's garbled and when I send it's received garbled. Is MS Works not compatible with MS Office, seems very odd.

 

Bigal 42

MS Word in the Works Suite application is compatible with MS Word in MS Office. However, a document created in Word 2002, for instance, may lose many attributes when attempting to open the same document in a lower version of Word, e.g., 2001, 2000 or earlier. In other words, the process works lower to higher versions but not higher to lower versions.

Also, you mention only the MS Works Suite application concerning the document in question, not MS Word. If you are attempting to open a document created in Word and then attempt to open it in the Works Word Processor, which is hidden by default but can be accessed, this might produce a "garbled" effect for the relevant document.