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You're using Microsoft Office Word 2007, and you want to share your documents with your colleagues who are still using earlier versions of Office Word. No problem. Your colleagues can open, read, and even make changes to the documents that you create in Word 2007. And you can make your Word 2007 documents fully available for editing by turning on Compatibility Mode.

This demo shows how easy it is to share your Word 2007 documents with people who have previous versions of Word.

How to do it (text version):

• Create a document to be used by previous versions of Word
• Open a Word 2007 document in an earlier version of Word

Online training

• Lesson: Compatibility mode
• Lesson: Share documents between versions by using a converter
• Lesson: Sharing documents between versions by saving with an older format

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