Fed up with windows 8 already! Office word 2007 'compatibility issues' Great!

[Rjae]

New computer up and running. All documents and photos backed up onto external hard drive have been reloaded onto my new computer running windows 8.

W8 taking a bit of time to get my head around, mainly looking for programs, but I've only had it a couple of days.

I've installed my legitimate copy of Microsoft office home and student 2007 which I really like and am comfortable with. All my documents were created with this.

Tried to open documents and the message

Microsoft office word has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application.

Comes up

I have tried reinstalling Office. I have run office diagnostics and that didn't pull up a problem. I have done something else (getting confused now) and it said not compatible. I don't want to download some dodgy win 8 app. I've looked at replacing something in the files with MOS.Dll (something similar) but too scared to mess up my nice tidy NEW computer as I did my old one probably

I can't afford new office and the one on the computer is I think, just a trial version.

Head is aching trying to sort this out as well as get to grips with a new OS and it is a bridge too far!

Please help.

There are two things you might try - first try the new version and put in you 2007 license key - if it works fine

If not then you can try uninstalling the trial version completely, then reinstall 2007.

If you can't get it to work then download and install either LibreOfice or OpenOffice - they are free and will happilly load and edit your old files.

Cheers I will give that a go. I'll try OpenOffice but I can see another day wasted trying to sort this out.

Cdtaylor. You are brilliant. Worked first time. Such a simple solution

Thank you x million