Coverting Office 2003 Word doc files to Word 2008

[Mark Appel]

I just bought a mac and need to know if I can convert my windows 2003 word
doc template files to word 2008 mac.
If so how do I go about doing it?
I know that the 2003 files had vba and word 2008 has apple script
So is this going to be be hard to do
Thanks
Mark

 

[Rob Schneider]

You don't have to convert. Mac Word 2008 will read and write Word 2003
files. If you want to save into the newer DOCX format (that works on
both Mac and Windows), then just save them.

Yes, Word Mac does not have macros and you will spend *much* time and
probably money converting. My view is don't use Mac Word 2008 if you
need Word 2003 macros. Instead, install Word 2003 (via putting Windows
on your Mac with VMWare Fusion or Parallels).

Word Mac that arrives end of this year is supposed to have VBA; but who
knows how good it will be on very old Word 2003 macros.


--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[Randy Singer (MacAttorney)]

I just bought a mac and need to know if I can convert my windows 2003 word
doc template files to word 2008 mac.
If so how do I go about doing it?

There is no "conversion" necessary. Word ".doc" files are identical
cross-platform.

I know that the 2003 files had vba and word 2008 has apple script
So is this going to be be hard to do

If your Windows 2003 files include Visual Basic macros that you need
to continue using, then don't use Word 2008. Get a copy of Word 2004
for the Macintosh.

http://www.9software.com/Word_2004_for_MAC_p/wrd2k4mac.htm

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=202916537&listingid=69951010

http://magoenterprise.com/microsoft-word-2004-mac_x10-37873.html

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=20360654&listingid=64404472

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Word-2004-Mac-Version/dp/B0001WN1FS