Do I need Office 2007 updates?

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I have a Win 7 SP1 machine. I had Office 10, briefly, didn’t need 99.9% of it and un-installed it. So I reverted to Word 2003 which does everything I need. However, I keep being offered Office updates, the latest is for Office 2007 which I have never had. Do I need to install updates for programs I don’t have???

David

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Do you have the Office Compatibility Pack installed? If so, this would explain why you are also being offered updates for Office 2007.

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Thanks for your response. I do seem to remember being sent some documents in .docx format a while ago, and I might have installed it then. How would I find out? Or maybe I don’t need to, just let the update go ahead?

David

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If you can open docs in .docx format using Office 2003 then, yes, you have the compatibility pack installed.

You can always double-check by going Start > Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Programs and Features and looking in the list.

I suggest you let the update go ahead.

Hope this helps…

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Thanks for the help, I’ll let it do its thing….

David

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