I'm having the same problem.

Eric. A, you have helped me at least open the files I have saved in 2003
office, however the later part of your message didnt work, it seems to have
changed all the word and publisher files into a doc file but the excel files
have not been altered.

"Eric A." wrote:

Sorry for jumping in Garfield-n-odie...

I have been seeing issues from time to time with the file associations for
older formats not working.

I may be way off base here... but does it seem like the problem is that when
you double click on .doc files they don't open in word, but if you were to
open word and then goto file, open and browse to the file it opens correctly?
If this is the case then there is a file association problem.

To fix... right click on a .doc file, goto open with, select word and make
sure that "always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is
checked. Hit ok.

--
Eric Palm
MSFT Office Setup


"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

Word 2007 should be able to open Word 2003 documents. We can't see your
screen from here, so you'll have to tell us what happens when you try to
do it. If you get an error message, quote it exactly and completely.

JimSFSU wrote:

My version of MS Office 2007 does not open documents saved in MS Word 2003.
Is thius a problem for Vista generally, or is there a setting I'm missing?