If you are faced with Office 2007 files, and have an earlier version of Word, read on.... This Office add-on allows you to not only view 2007 files, but edit them as well. It also allows you to "Save As" 2007 format from within earlier versions of Office. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941 b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en (BTW, it's a 27 Mb download) George