Mac Office 2004 with Windows Office 2003?

[Marcus]

After getting a new mac for work, I put Mac Office 2004 on it to work with
our windows Office 2003. I soon realize it didn't work together.

If I have a document open and one of the windows users tries to open it they
will get an error, but when I close the document it works for them no
problem. If I have a document open and a mac user tries to open it, they
will be allowed to open it in read-only mode. Also if a Windows user has a
document open I can open it in read-only mode as well.

So either something isn't set up right on my end or Mac Office 2004 doesn't
allow Windows office 2003 to open documents in read-only mode.

If anyone has any clues to how to fix or if it is a bug let me know. I have
been searching the web for something about this and have found nothing about
it.

 

[frances.underwood]

Hi

I can't solve your problem I'm afraid, but I also have problems between
Office 2004 (Mac) which I have and Office 2003 windows, which my client
has. Some word and powerpoint documents either don't open, open as read
only or have blank slides, particularly if I have drawn diagrams. Any
suggestions? I can't find anything on the web.

Frances

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Frances,

Your problem seems distinctly different from Marcus'. His apparantely
involves multiple people opening documents simultaneously via network
connections.

The problem you have would likely be solved by updating both the Mac and
Windows versions to the latest updates for each.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP


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Hi

I can't solve your problem I'm afraid, but I also have problems between
Office 2004 (Mac) which I have and Office 2003 windows, which my client
has. Some word and powerpoint documents either don't open, open as read
only or have blank slides, particularly if I have drawn diagrams. Any
suggestions? I can't find anything on the web.

Frances

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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