Quote Originally Posted by Kevin McFarlane
MS provides a free Office 2007 Compatibility pack which is available for Office 2000 which means I can in fact open docx documents. Of course, had I still been using Office 97 I'd have been in trouble.

But in any case, how many Office users are currently using Office 2007? Not many, so compatibility would not have been a big issue anyway. Office 2000 can read Office 2003. Or I could ask 2007 users to save in older format.
Fair enough, I was speaking without knowing for sure.