RAR! MS Word 2007
Okay, so I haven't updated Word since I got my computer, so I'm still running a previous Microsoft Word (2002). And it works fine. It does everything I want it to do. (Of course, I said that about all the previous MSWords I've used, too! And I've been using Word since I was a wee, wee Eilonwy. [Eilonwee? Um. Sorry. It's been a long evening of grading/commenting on student papers.])
But now all the ASU campus computers have 2007 on them. And my students all (generally) use 2007. So no matter how many times I tell them to send me the files as .doc or .rtf, they still insist on sending them as .docx.
Today my father even sent a .docx. (Not, obviously, a student paper. It was information about our Germany trip. I digress.)
I know that there are converters out there, yes? So that I can open a .docx into an older Word? Do any of you lovely readers have a recommendation? Are any of them free?
Any of you out there who use the new version have a reason (other than it's time) that I should (especially before I start the dissertation?) switch to 2007? Does it actually do anything new and different? (The only thing I've found particularly useful is the ability to easily switch to a view where I can use the full screen to show the full document. This is only important when I'm in front of a classroom and want to show an assignment or something as our department has told us again and again not to make handouts but to put everything online. I'm not saying that this is not a good tool, nor am I saying it's the only change I'd find useful-- I simply don't know as I haven't used the program enough.)
If so (and I certainly wouldn't mind) anyone know if I can get some kind of student discount, because I can't afford the actual software...
Help me, LJ Genie! :D I'm really tired of students not turning in the right format! Grr! But since *that* won't change...
But now all the ASU campus computers have 2007 on them. And my students all (generally) use 2007. So no matter how many times I tell them to send me the files as .doc or .rtf, they still insist on sending them as .docx.
Today my father even sent a .docx. (Not, obviously, a student paper. It was information about our Germany trip. I digress.)
I know that there are converters out there, yes? So that I can open a .docx into an older Word? Do any of you lovely readers have a recommendation? Are any of them free?
Any of you out there who use the new version have a reason (other than it's time) that I should (especially before I start the dissertation?) switch to 2007? Does it actually do anything new and different? (The only thing I've found particularly useful is the ability to easily switch to a view where I can use the full screen to show the full document. This is only important when I'm in front of a classroom and want to show an assignment or something as our department has told us again and again not to make handouts but to put everything online. I'm not saying that this is not a good tool, nor am I saying it's the only change I'd find useful-- I simply don't know as I haven't used the program enough.)
If so (and I certainly wouldn't mind) anyone know if I can get some kind of student discount, because I can't afford the actual software...
Help me, LJ Genie! :D I'm really tired of students not turning in the right format! Grr! But since *that* won't change...