Different versions of Office

My new laptop has Office 2010, I can't open any of my files created at Uni on it.

If you are experiencing problems between two versions of Office (eg University Office 2007 new laptop Office 2010) you need to turn on the compatibility mode in Office 2010 - you can then use that to save documents in 2007.

We are advising customers not to save in RTF (not being fully supported by Word 2010 or future releases) as we believe they will lose formatting and other functionality from the document which may cause more problems than originally occurred from 2007 opening a 2010 document.

Microsoft advice at:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178980.aspx