Ubuntu open office 3 is not supporting MS word 2007 format file, why?

Great :( It sounds like the old work-around of using 2007 to "Save As ..." older formats and then send those to Ubuntu/linux/Mac users and also people with an older version of Microsquish Office. I guess that's a good way of forcing people to buy the new M$ Office.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

     I'm assuming you DID open 2007 formats with Open Office 3, but have problems with ....??
     I just opened one that I used to send a fax with (only thing I had done with it) and it showed fine in either Abiword or OpenOffice 3.0; it included a scanned picture and a fax template. So some things maybe don't work and some do?

Thanks Chris Baier, that solved my question.

There's probably some quirky new gizmo like a new type of paragraph mark or something that is unnoticeable on a printed page but stops people without 2007 from being able to open the documents that contain it? I doubt that people are really using advanced features of 2007 yet.

For example pdf documents are rarely much more than text-files but could use their contents table and index to jump to the relevant point in the document in the same way as links on a web-page. *Shrugs*, seems a very basic functionality but almost never gets used. Instead with long documents you usually have to kinda scroll through to roughly where you think and then line it up.

Anyway, enough of my sour-grapes ;)
Good luck and have fun :)
Regards from
Tom :)

heheheheh, i've just had thought. How about saving all your files as .pdf files just to show-off how easily you can do that from OpenOffice? heheheh