"Gordon" wrote in :

"VanguardLH" wrote in message
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"EvoR" wrote in
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I have been sending e-mails as I always have and attaching them in the
way I
always have, all of a sudden word documents are coming up as docx files
and
the recipients cannot open them, I have only recently gone onto Vista and
microsoft offoce 2007. This has only happened recently with new docs that
I
have created on the new system. It is frustrating my customers and my
hair is
now falling out. Please help!

"all of a sudden"
"recently gone [on]to Vista and Microsoft Office 2007"

Well, you already answered the question as to what you recently changed
that would cause the "all of a sudden" problem.

Solution: Don't send .docx files.

In the OP's defence, AFAIR there is nothing in Office 2007 that says that
the default document format is NOT compatible with prior versions....there's
not even a dialog box that tells the user that the default document format
has even changed....

Depends on how long "always" represents in the OP's post. Always could
be 1 minute or it could be many years. If the OP has been using Word
for several months, or longer, then they should've been quite aware of
what were the filetypes being generated by the older version of Word.
If you had been generated .doc files for years and then saw it change to
..docx, you wouldn't be curious as to why the change? If you drove up to
your house that was painted blue many years ago but today it was yellow,
the color change wouldn't raise your eyebrow and make you wonder what
happened?