Word 2010

Issues opening Word 2007 documents in Word 2010?

This is another one of those problems that online forums suggest is experienced by a good number of people, but the same forums don’t seem very good at offering solutions.  Therefore, having got to the bottom of it myself this weekend, I thought I’d share the outcome in case it helps anyone else. My son has a new laptop, and we had just set it up with a brand new installation of MS...