{"id":72,"date":"2012-10-05T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T11:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsofttraining.net\/b\/wordtraining\/?p=72"},"modified":"2023-12-30T23:15:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:15:39","slug":"can-i-open-and-edit-a-word-2003-document-in-word-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/can-i-open-and-edit-a-word-2003-document-in-word-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I open and edit a Word 2003 document in Word 2010?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still have 2003 Word documents and I want to be able to view and edit them in Word 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Word 2010 is a clever little thing, and knows that I need to do this. It also has a fancy name for this, are you ready?<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s new term is &#8220;compatibility mode&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>How do you know if a file you receive is in 2003 or 2010? \u00a0The answer is in the suffix.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2003 Word files\u00a0have .doc at the end of the file name.<br \/>\n2010 Word files have .docx at the end of the file name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you receive a 2003 doc and want to edit it in your Word 2010 version &#8211; 2010 will kindly do this for you by opening the file in (ready for this) <em>compatibility mode<\/em>. \u00a02010 will then remove the 2010 functions and enhancements that are not compatible to the 2003 version. \u00a0You can make all the changes you want, save it, send it&#8230;.and it will all be in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll know that you are in compatibility mode because at the top of your ribbon it will remind you.<\/p>\n<p><em>Word Course: \u00a0Compatibility Mode in Word 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still have 2003 Word documents and I want to be able to view and edit them in Word 2010. Word 2010 is a clever little thing, and knows that I need to do this. It also has a fancy name for this, are you ready? Today&#8217;s new term is &#8220;compatibility mode&#8221;. How do you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[556,602],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-training","tag-upgrade-word-2003-to-2010","tag-word-course"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6819,"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/6819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stl-training.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}