Reading MS Word '.docm' (macro enabled doc) files

Someone sent me a file that Pages '09 wouldn't open. The author told me the files opened in Word 2007 and what the format was. Then he sent me a version compatible with Word2003 which was OK in Pages. So my question is why? Why is Pages incompatible with this format? And why is there no update?

Henry

MacPro1,1 2.66GHz. 4 Core, MBP 15" 2.0GHz, MB2008 2.0GHz, Mac Mini (10.5.8), Mac OS X (10.6.1), iPhone 3G, AEBS 802.11n

Posted on Feb 17, 2010 5:18 PM

16 replies

fruhulda

Level 6

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Feb 18, 2010 9:38 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Morning! The mentioned doc doesn't directly open in MS Word X for Mac. It can be converted with a XML converter from MS and then opened in Word v. X.

I still think the sender should save a document in a format so the reader can read it.

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Reading MS Word '.docm' (macro enabled doc) files

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