I have Office 2003, and I need a file that will allow me to convert .docx files from Word 2007 to .doc files for Word for Windows. I have looked everywhere and can not find it. Oddly enough, I have the upgrade for my MAC and can convert .docx to .rtf, but so far I have been unable to find anything for Windows.
Anyone know the url for the download I need?
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As a side note, why the hell do people like Doug Feith and Karl Rove and company keep getting premiere real estate to spill their babble? I understand the WSJ can not hire liberals, and when they do they have jackasses like Lanny Davis attack… Democrats, but can’t they at least farm out some of that real estate to people like Radley Balko or Nick Gillespie or Jim Henley or Matt Welch or someone with half a damned clue?
Grumble.
DecidedFenceSitter
Yes.
Well that is the question you asked.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100444731033.aspx
El Doh
If you have Word XP or Word 2003, the load filters to allow it to load Word 2007 files are on the Microsoft Site here.
Maude
I have installed the ms file on a dozen computers and it works for word 2007 docs.
David Hunt
People with half of damned clue will not say the BS that they want to publish.
QED
David Hunt
p.s. while we’re on the subject of conversion, does anyone know where you can get a patch that will let Excel 2003 read quatro pro files? When I tried to follow the instructions on the Microsoft site I kept getting sent to a patch that would let Excel 2000 read quatro pro files.
jake
fRightWing B.S. sells almost as well as sex and doesn’t make the sheet inspectors faint.
(SLA2SQ)
Buckethead
Also, you don’t have Windows 2003, you have Office 2003. Windows 2003 is a server operating system.
jibeaux
I don’t know who any of those people are, but I would read a guy named “Radley Balko.” I once knew a Jimbo Huckabee, and he wrote good stuff.
He seems to be a financial planner now. Ain’t teh google great?
Alex
The answer is clearly Rupert Murdoch.
Frank
It still weirds me out how much you have changed since katrina.
DannyNoonan
why the hell do people like Doug Feith and Karl Rove and company keep getting premiere real estate to spill their babble?
For the same reason the Yankees and Red Sox are the only two teams deemed relevant by the MSM: People only pay attention so much.
Nora Carrington
Here’s a helpful link that explains what should have happened (you get a dialog box directing you to a reader/converter provided by Microsoft) and what to do if — as appears in your case — you don’t get the helpful dialog box:
http://www.gregcons.com/KateBlog/ReadingOffice2007Files.aspx
Nora
The Other Steve
You need the latest updates. I thought you had a Mac, but there is no Office 2003 for Mac. It’s Office 2004.
regardles syou need an update. Then you load the .docx in Word and save it out as .doc.
Word 2007 is the BOMB!
Dennis - SGMM
WSJ hires people like Rove and Feith for the same reason a dog licks its balls: because they can.
Cols714
I don’t understand why John saw the Republican party for what is was after Schiavo and Katrina but most of the population, and almost all of the media pundits, haven’t.
They still treat that party like it is a serious political party. It isn’t.
Dreggas
U.S. Dollar Worth 41% of what it was when bush took office
fucking depressing.
zmulls
Foolish Boy. Karl Rove is now an commentator for Newsweek and Fox, and is by definition objective.
Dennis - SGMM
How dare you attack McCain’s war record?!?!?!?
/election preview
Dreggas
You have to be kidding me
John S.
Yes, highly unstable and likely to blow your shit up.
rawshark
They attract ad dollars. No one will watch if liberals are on (or the Brewers/Cardinals), they don’t say the things the cool kids believe in. We all want to hang with the cool kids right?
Lee
I seem to remember (might be an urban myth) but didn’t Sadam & Sons offer to exile to Egypt or someplace right on the eve of the war and the Administration declined the offer?
Incertus
Bush is at 30% approval, right? I’d say most of the population has figured it out. The media pundits, well…you know the saying about trying to convince a person of something when his or her paycheck depends on believing the opposite, right?
Wilfred
Obama Might ‘Refine’ Iraq Timeline
Safe, we got it. But wouldn’t they be safer if they came home? Stable? Lame.
Zifnab
This is where he leverages that massive approval rating to spur a real grass roots movement.
Yeah.
It could totally happen.
BFR
There is some recent polling indicating a rapid shift in preference towards more exploration. It’s pretty unfortunate.
LarryB
Use Open Office. Does everything Office does, including reading and writing Office file formats, and it’s free. I haven’t given Microsoft a penny for office productivity software for almost a decade (well, my company made me buy MS Project this year). OpenOffice 2.x runs on MacOS under X Windows. If you have one of the Intel Macs, a native Aqua version is out in beta. Early reviews seem positive. Check it out.
John Cole
It would be supremely irresponsible to simply withdraw everyone at once, and honestly, I wouldn’t vote for Obama if I thought he had ever meant he was going to do that. A sixteen month slow drawdown, considering the men, material, and situation on the ground is fine by me, and Obama has never stated anything other than that.
Did you think he was going to snap his fingers on 20 January 2009 and they would all be back home? Hell, I can recite one of his stump speeches where he states we must “withdraw as carefull as we recklessly entered.” he has said that so often I bet I have reproduced it verbatim without even having to google.
Some of you all are looking for reasons to sabotage your own candidate. It is fucking crazy.
Dennis - SGMM
I’ll even play along. Just as soon as the oil companies reveal how many existing leases have not been explored. Just as soon as we know how many wells have been capped or taken out of production until the price of oil hits a preset target figure. I’m sure that our courageous Congress won’t cave until these modest questions have been answered.
Wilfred
read the article, John. I supported Obama specifically because of the 16 month timetable which he is now POSSIBLY pulling back from.
I would take that out in a week if I could, I didn’t suggest that Obama had ever said he would. But if Obama turns his back on the 16 month plan he can go fuck himself.
I’m an anti-war, anti-Imperialism voter. I don’t give a shit about anything else.
Apsaras
I’ve always thought this…
http://nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com/index.php?id=330
Summed up the raison d’etre of modern punditry quite well.
Michael57
No liberals at the WSJ? What is Thomas Franks, then?
Michael57
No liberals at the WSJ? What is Thomas Frank, then?
Dennis - SGMM
Remind me of how long it took to get all of those troops and materiel into Iraq. Take a look at our transport capabilities. Consider the words “retreat under fire.” Finally, mull over the fact that Bushco has managed to turn this into a complicated disaster with no good or easy options.
If Obama begins a program of scheduled troop withdrawals that alone will take some of the wind out of the sails of the resistance and mollify those Iraqis who understandably and legitimately don’t want foreign occupiers in their country.
p.a.
Yep, someone beat me to the answer. a la Jeopardy:’Who owns the Wall Street Journal?’ John must be under the weather to miss that one.
9,300 about a month ago per The Oil Drum. Great site btw.
Tom
Yeah, so it was a war of choice.
More accurately, it was a war of choice disguised as a war of necessity. Not only did Bush think wrong, but he played down intelligence that went against his hypothesis.
Dennis - SGMM
All he did was remove the main counterpoise to Iranian ambition in Iraq. What could go wrong?
Zifnab
Check out the last 2 years, John. How often has the progressive community been back-stabbed by the exact fuckers we elected in opposition to the GOP? The Dems majority is on the line for passing more war funding than their GOP counterparts. They’re gearing up to pass the FISA bill that couldn’t get through a Republican Congress. Spending continues unabated while we get tricked on with stimulus checks and other bullshit. The Pelosi House has been a disappointment. The Reid Senate has barely been an improvement.
You’ll forgive the huddled masses if we don’t quite trust our elected representatives. We’re just not ready to go through yet another 4 years of Bush-shit. McCain is worse. Blah blah blah. We got it. But McCain’s the bad guy. When the good guy looks like he’s going to hang you out to dry, what the fuck then?
cyntax
Or to think of it another way, removing the troops after the Gulf War took many months and those were pretty much the best conditions possible. 16 months is probably as fast as it can go under these conditions and it may have to go slower.
The Dangerman
Try loading OpenOffice (openoffice.org)when you need to play with file formats. Or, in other words, MSFT is like McCain (Old and Creaky) and Open Source is like Obama (all the Cool Kids).
NonyNony
Some of you all are looking for reasons to sabotage your own candidate. It is fucking crazy.
Just in case you haven’t glommed onto it yet, John (since you’re new at this “Democrat” thing) – only a handful of Democrats consider the Democratic candidate to be “their” candidate in any given election. Those folks tend to be the die-hard partisans. Most Democrats (at least in my experience over the last 10 years) tend to think of the Democratic candidate as “the guy I’m voting for because every other choice is just so damn awful” or possibly as “the guy I’m voting for because he’s closest to what I believe in” and not as “their candidate”.
Moving from being a Republican to being a Democrat, that was the thing I noticed the most. The majority of Dems don’t reflexively make apologies for the Dem candidate when he takes a stance they don’t like, they don’t throw money at candidates just because the other candidate is (or might be) worse, and they don’t “fall in line like good soldiers” once the candidate has been selected. If they don’t like the guy they say it – often very loudly and very frequently. And the more the guy does things to “win elections” instead of “stand up for his beliefs” the more Dem voters tend to deflate in their support.
It’s an interesting dynamic – it’s not the way the Republicans work at all. There’s a definite tendency for Republicans to just “fall in line” behind whatever candidate the party settles on. Dems don’t do that. I’d say get used to it if you’re going to stay a Dem – it’s been going on for a long time and is unlikely to change anytime in the near future (see “Rogers, Will” in reference to “organized party, Democrat”).
cleek
you vote for him anyway, because the bad guy is still worse, and democracy is not about getting your perfect candidate.
Wilfred
yeah, well I’m sure that if Mexico suddenly decided to invade the United States it wouldn’t take 16 months to get all our people and gear out of Iraq.
Someone remind me how long it took the English to evacuate from Dunkirk – without, btw, total mastery of air, sea and land.
montysano
I’ll second p.a. in saying that the Oil Drum is an excellent, but very wonky, resource. So is our own gummint’s Energy Information Agency. One of my co-workers, who listens to Neal and Rush and Sean all day, was frothing about “We gotta drill NOW!” A quick trip to the Oil Drum or to EIA, some easy math………… totally bummed her out to confront the facts of our situation; i.e. we really don’t have very much oil here in the USA. If we did, we’d have sucked it out and pissed it away.
That’s a pretty good mission statement for a liberal: “Bumming people out with facts every day”.
Punchy
Please dont get me to start a f-strewn tirade about this at work. If BoSox fans wanna know why everybody hates their friggin team, it’s because they’re on ESPN EVERY FUCKING NITE.
Ok, back to politics. Rove is fat.
nightjar
Even though Obama claims he going to pull out ALL combat brigades in a safe 16 month time span, that’s just not going to happen. What will it be like for Americans staying on there? Like say the Embassy and it’s diplomatic corp, and NGO’s. contractors etc … Do people think we’re going to have a normal mission where the US Embassy is guarded by a few Marines and protected by the indigenous forces of Iraq, which are nothing more than a militia gumbo with loyalties that rarely include the national government which BTW remains cowering in the Green Zone?
It’s kind of laughable in a dark comedy sort of way. It’s going to take years to bring out all combat forces and even then, I suspect we’ll have an Operation Frequent Wind Redoux of sorts.
The best I hope for Obama is to reduce combat forces and change their mission to force protection (also NGO and maybe some contractor) or IOW’s keep the pale skin population from losing their heads, literally.
The only other viable alternative is some out, then everybody out now and that will be violent adventure, especially if your the last one out the door.
Calouste
Someone remind me how far it is from Dunkirk to Dover and how far it is from Basra to Virginia?
And I wouldn’t say the US has total mastery of the land in Iraq.
LarryB
Bush, et. al. have put us so far down the rat hole in Iraq (hell, everywhere) I don’t know why anyone would want to be President after him. Given that, I’m willing to give Obama a lot of slack if he wants to hedge on dates or policy specifics. If I were him my standard preface to any “what would you do about X” question would be, “I can’t go into details because we just don’t know yet how bad the situation is, except that it’s probably far worse than we have been led to believe”. If you want to see what a serious cut at what getting out of Iraq looks like, check out Darcy Burner’s Responsible Plan for Ending the War in Iraq (pdf). It’s a daunting prospect.
Wilfred
Goddammit I just can’t do the stupid today. Try this: HOW FAR IS IT FROM BASRA TO KUWAIT FUCKING CITY?
Face
If? What the hell do you mean “if”?
Signed,
Lou Dobbs
in canaduh
use open office , only wingnuts and weirdoes use office
Dork
About 1 inch on my map.
Wilfred
You mean about 2.5 centimeters, measurement-centric, Imperialist lackey.
Kilos head.
montysano
How many soldiers does it take to staff 58 bases, plus protect the largest embassy in the world? If Obama (who I fully support) can bring Halliburton and KBR and Bechtel to heel, I’ll be thrilled. I’m not hopeful, however.
cyntax
Whoa, dude. Dunkirk is the absolute wrong analogy to draw and not the way anyone should want this to go down.
Geeno
As Will Rogers said: I’m not a member of any organized political party; I’m a democrat.
Wilfred
It is a near perfect analogy in terms of logistics, the point at hand. 16 months is more than enough time to get the fuck out of Iraq; any symbolism will have to be factored with the thousands of lives to be thrown away by staying any further.
Stay indefinitely or set a timetable to get out. If Obama bails on the only thing that distinguished his candidacy from most of the other Democratic challengers, i.e the 16 month ORDERLY withdrawal, then he gives the Pentagon the same blank check that McCain will.
Dreggas
Obama responds On FISA and policy staff discusses
cyntax
It’s an absolute crap analogy because even if logistics were the only thing going on, this would put the maximum strain possible on our logistics. At Dunkirk the British forces were up against the sea and awaiting near certain anhilation from the Nazis. They were not trying to draw-down forces from within a civilian population that harbored insurgent and guerrila forces. The kind of withdrawal you’re advocating would inflict the most causualties possible on our forces and could incite violence within Iraq as various forces rushed to fill the power vacuum.
Symbolism has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Wilfred
You need to find some lubricant to get your head out of your ass.
Wilfred
16 months. 16 motherfucking months. 16 goddamned motherfucking months. If that’s not enough your grandchildren will be in Iraq welcoming McCain’s.
Joy
With my Word 2007 there is a feature to save your document in an earlier Word format. Click on the icon in the upper left corner and then use the Save As button – choose the earlier Word format.
montysano
Stay indefinitely or set a timetable to get out. If Obama bails on the only thing that distinguished his candidacy from most of the other Democratic challengers, i.e the 16 month ORDERLY withdrawal, then he gives the Pentagon the same blank check that McCain will.
If you think the MUP will be able to flip some magic switch to shut down the military/corporate machine in Iraq and start ’em marchin’ home, you’re fooling yourself. 16 months seems entirely reasonable.
And BTW: the Dunkirk analogy? All wrong.
cyntax
Look you’re the one who’s making the crap analogies so pull your own head out of your ass. Alternately, read up on some military history and military theory before developing some ideal timeline that takes zero exigencies into account.
16 months. I’m sorry but there it is (and it’s probably best case scenario). I truly hope it can go quicker but I don’t think it will.
And I’m not saying this as someone who’s working through this at a simply abstract level. I fought in the Gulf War, I knew what a complete cluster-f*ck this one would be the moment I heard of it. So I’m not being sarcastic when I say wish it could be quicker but I’m being pretty accurate when I say it probably won’t.
Soylent Green
FYI, John, you have a Mac, not a MAC. Identifying it the allcaps way is absolute proof that your roots are in the enemy camp. You know, like a concern troll’s use of “Democrat Party.”
Davis Tucker
I might as well “third” The Oil Drum. I go there about twice a day–and the more I learn from there, the more I realize that we are so fooked.
It’s the kind of site that you have to hang around for a while to get. Not for the faint of heart.
http://theoildrum.com
VidaLoca
Wilfred,
It’s not getting from Basra to Kuwait fucking City that will be the interesting part. It’s getting from Baghdad to Basra that will be interesting. You have to get everything and everyone you want to take home with you down order 400 miles of highway through country that someone else owns, on the way to the ports. Every place that road crosses a river, every bridge, every valley will be a deathtrap.
Getting all that shit up there was non-trivial in the first place and that was 5 years ago with “shock and awe” going on. Now, not so easy: no more shock, no more awe. Picture the casualties you’d take, fighting for every mile. Picture the number of people you’d have to kill in order to pull it off.
McCain is for staying in. Obama is for getting out. As long as he KEEPS ON being for getting out (and I agree with your main premise that this is not something to be taken for granted) I’m not going to quibble about 16, 24, even 30 months.
rachel
I’m putting in my vote for OpenOffice. It’s cross-platform and will read/save in most formats.
PaulW
I got a wonderful solution to your Microsoft Office problem.
Try OpenOffice.
Screw Microsoft.
bago
Or take 15 seconds at microsoft.com and find the converter plugins for anything already not supported by the little arrow next to the save button. Microsoft will always have a good back-compat story, even if it means hacking the HAL to shreds.
here4tehbeer
What I use on Mac…
http://www.panergy-software.com/products/docxconverter/index.html