# OSX Tiger & Office 2007
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/osx-tiger-office-2007/41892
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**Created:** [January 15, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/osx-tiger-office-2007/41892 "2008-01-15T16:47:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/osx-tiger-office-2007/41892/1 "2008-01-15T16:47:11Z")
How do you do it?
A girl in my MBA class has a Mac with OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and Office 2004. She can’t open our professor’s Office '07 docs.
Is there a patch?
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### Author:  [@jrod0187](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jrod0187)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/osx-tiger-office-2007/41892/2 "2008-01-15T16:49:55Z")
I’ve had this problem before. It should prompt you too install a converter if I’m not mistaken
Edit: doubt that this will work but what if you just changed the extention from .docx to .doc
Or try using openoffice. [http://www.openoffice.org/](http://www.openoffice.org/)
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/osx-tiger-office-2007/41892/3 "2008-01-15T16:55:15Z")
.docx son… at least thats what the windows version did
you can download a patch for old office to open new office on windows
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### Author:  [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/osx-tiger-office-2007/41892/4 "2008-01-15T17:02:38Z")
Last I checked, there is no patch for the Mac version of office, but there’s a converter.
[http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx](http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx)
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### Author:  [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/osx-tiger-office-2007/41892/5 "2008-01-15T17:09:47Z")
> [@Locutus](#):
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> .docx son… at least thats what the windows version did
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> you can download a patch for old office to open new office on windows
Yeah, what pug-face said.
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### Author:  [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/osx-tiger-office-2007/41892/6 "2008-01-15T17:22:33Z")
> [@RuBiCaNT](#):
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> Yeah, what pug-face said.
Except you’re wrong when it comes to macs.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/osx-tiger-office-2007/41892/7 "2008-01-15T18:54:49Z")
office 2008 should be coming out soon for macs
edit: i think its already out
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### Author:  [@dozr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dozr)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/osx-tiger-office-2007/41892/8 "2008-01-15T21:00:31Z")
Pages will open Office 07 docs (.docx)
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### Author:  [@Matt\_Danger](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Matt_Danger)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/osx-tiger-office-2007/41892/9 "2008-01-15T21:23:13Z")
> [@brent\_strong](#):
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> [http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx](http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx)
^Use this.^ We don’t have Office 08 in our labs yet so I’ve installed this for the time being to let students open the .docx files.
Also, Office 2008 for Mac was announced today at Macworld.
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### Author:  [@TgDn32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TgDn32)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/osx-tiger-office-2007/41892/10 "2008-01-16T04:41:58Z")
Tell the retarded professor to save them in Word 97-03 compatibility.