Updating Older Word Documents in Word 2007

Certain features available to Word 2007 documents, such as Quick Styles and themes, aren't available to files saved in older Word formats. To fix that, you must update the older Word documents. Here's how:

  1. Use the Open dialog box to locate an older Word document.

    Word 2007 is smart and displays older Word documents with special icons representing their versions.
  1. Choose the older word document.

  2. Click Open.

    The Word document opens and is displayed on the screen. And now, the secret:
  1. From the Office button, choose Convert.

    The Convert command appears only when you open an older Word document, one that can be converted into the Word 2007 document format.
  1. Click OK.

  2. Save the document.