How to Install Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.
Sometimes you will receive Microsoft Word or Excel attachments that someone has sent you and you cant open them. Mostly its because the person sending you the document is using either office 2007 or office 2010 and you are using an older version. To get around this you need to install the compatibility pack for Office.
Firstly get yourself along to the link below and click on the download button….
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=3
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Next you will see this….
Click on “Run”
Next the program will download and the program will start to install.
To begin with you will see the Software Licence Terms that you should Tick to say you accept and then click Continue as you can see in the Image below..
Wait for it to install…..
Then a box will appear to say that the installation is complete.
Click on OK, Well done you have now installed the Compatibility pack and you shouldn’t get any troubles with your office files.