Backwards Compatibility- XP Dev to Office 2K

[Jeffrey Brown]

Greetings,

I work for a court and my ability with office has grown to a point that they
have graciously decided to buy XP Developer for me.

My only concern is that the rest of the court is still using Office 2000,
how hard will it be to maintain the backwards compatibility?


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[Glen Appleton]

Hi Jeffrey,

Generally speaking, you won't see much of a compatibility issue between 2000
and 2002. The file formats are the same with the exception of Access, and I
believe Access is set up to default to the 2000 format, so it shouldn't be
an issue out of the box.

One thing to be aware of is if you compile Access projects (.mde files), you
want to make sure that any reference to other office applications are done
using late binding rather than direct reference to the application library.
Using late binding will help ensure that you're application will not choke
on missing references, for the most part anyway. :~)-

Here is a good article on declaring object variables that touches on late
binding (watch for line wrapping):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...odcore/html/deconDeclaringObjectVariables.asp

Hope this helps,
- Glen