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Old 01-29-2017, 11:52 AM
ugcheleuce ugcheleuce is offline Windows 7 64bit Office 2003
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Default Word 2003 refuses to open DOCX, even with compatibility pack, after 2016 install

Hello everyone

I've recently installed Office 2016, but I still have Office 2003 on my computer. I prefer to use Office 2003. The problem now is that if I try to open a DOCX file in Word 2003, it tells me that I need to download and install the compatibility pack, every time. And even though I've re-installed that pack, Word 2003 no longer wants to open DOCX files (it tells me to download the compatibility pack each time).

Got any ideas? Windows has made Word 2016 the default program for both DOC and DOCX, and I can live with that, as long as I'm able to open DOC and DOCX files manually in Word 2003.

I'm using Windows 7 HP.

Thanks
Samuel
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