>Office used to be good. At work we were required to upgrade to Office 2007, and it’s a significant step backwards.<
Correct. MOST XP run Office software runs on 2003 at the LATEST.
If you send an MS Word in 2007 as an attachment, it is rejected by the other company’s 2003 version. Our company had to revert back to 2003 apps.
You can use “save as” to save a file in the 2003 format in word 2007.