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by Karl Egressy on Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:06 am
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I got a new computer and the operating system had to be Windows 10
as per the salesperson I bought the parts from (motherboard, CPU and all the rest)
My Microsoft Office I bought in 2002 won't work anymore with the old files.
My question is: if I buy the new 2016 issue Microsoft Office software would it read my old files created with the previous
version.
I don't want to pay $190 CAN just to find out it won't.

The old version still works I can create a new spreadsheet or write a letter but  it won't bring up the old files.
Thanks.
 

by Andrew_5488 on Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:24 am
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There's no reason that your Microsoft Office suite won't read files it created just because it's on new OS.
There's something else going on on your computer.
 

by E.J. Peiker on Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:00 pm
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Yes it will open files all the way back to the very first version of any of the office applications.
 

by Karl Egressy on Thu Feb 01, 2018 4:30 pm
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E.J. Peiker wrote:Yes it will open files all the way back to the very first version of any of the office applications.


Thank you E.J.
I just found one for $99 on Amazon and ordered it.
 

by ChrisRoss on Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:54 pm
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I gave up giving Microsoft money and just use Open Office, it does everything I need. and will open and save office files. The only thing it is not great at is PowerPoint files.

In fact a few years back I was getting corrupt files on Word and the workaround was to open and save them in the Open Office version as Word files and that solved the problem
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