2003 & 97 format compatibility

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Alexander - 08 Mar 2004 16:15 GMT

Hi, everyone,

I run Office 97 on my machine, but I'm currently trying
out the Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
Evaluation Kit software. I have created several documents
in Word 2003 and saved them using the default Word
Document (*.doc) format (I've also created several
documents in Excel 2003, for that matter, and saved them
as standard Office Excel Workbooks). If I decide to refer
to Office 97, will I be able to open these documents,
created in Word 2003, with Word 97? Or do I need to save
them in Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF.doc format?

Thanks!

Alexander

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Howard Kaikow - 08 Mar 2004 17:49 GMT

It is not a good idea to edit documents in multiple versions.
Better to move your documents to Office 2003 and not back to Office 97.

Even if the Word 97 and Word 2003 "file formats" were identical, the content
is not interpreted the same way in all versions and later versions may
include stuff that do not work well with earlier versions.

However, you might want to develop macros in Office 97 for use in both
versions to increase the chance that the macros will work in both versions,
but there are no guarantees.

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http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.

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