Open an Infopath form without infopath

Question

_{Wednesday, August 6, 2014 8:24 PM}

A customer is sending a infopath form to my office only some of the people are able to open the form, none of us have infopath.

the form was written in InfoPath 2010, the users using windows 7 with MS Office 2007 are able to open the form.  The users windows 7 and Office 2013 are not able to open the form.  the problem is the users with office 2013 are the ones that need to open the form.  How do I get the form to open without having InfoPath?

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_{Wednesday, August 6, 2014 9:22 PM | 1 vote}

What error are they encountering?

If you have SharePoint Enterprise, you can use Infopath Form Services, which lets you open Infopath in the browser on a SharePoint site.

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_{Thursday, August 7, 2014 9:20 AM}

Hi,

While creating the infopath forms , If you enable Backward compatibility option then it should work for any versions of InfoPath.

Thanks, Sures | MCTS SharePoint

_{Thursday, August 7, 2014 4:58 PM}

The error message is windows can not find the program associated with the file.

Part of the problem we do not have SharePoint.  The issue is limited to users running office 2013 only.  users with office 2010 or older it works fine.

_{Thursday, August 7, 2014 5:00 PM}

the problem is not with the older versions we are able to open the form on PC running  office 2010 and older.  but all of the users that are running office 2013 are not able to access the form.