Office 2003 and Office 2000 co-existence

[pdx]

Hi
I'd appreciate any info on any compatability issues between Office 2003 and Office 2000. I work for a company with a fairly tight budget and I currently have 5 upgrades licenses for Office 2003. I'd like to upgrade five users to Office 2003 with the other 45 users still on Office 2000 and any heads-ups for compatability problems would be helpful.

Background info:We run Exchange 2000. Also, we have a few important (to some people) Access databases in use so any Access 2000 /2003 incompatability info would be definitely helpful

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ian Baird [MS]]

Hi

See the following article which discuss's what you will face.

828956 Running Multiple Versions of Microsoft Office with Office 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=828956

Regards,

Ian Baird
Microsoft PSS

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[bxb7668]

Thanks for the reply.
I'm not planning on installing multiple versions of Office on the

same computer so that's not an issue. What I was concerned about is if
an Office 2003 user opens a shared Word doc or Excel spreadsheet or
Access db, etc from a network file share and makes changes and saves
back to the file share are Office 2000 users going to have difficulty
with the modified file? Also will a new file created with an Office
2003 app be fully accessible from Office 2000 apps?

Work and Excel coexist fine. An Access 2003 user must always remember
to save any changes in Access 2000 format.

 

[pdx]

Thanks for the info. Since Access 2003 saves in 2000 format by default, that shouldn't be a problem and from what I've read opening/enabling a file from a previous version in Access 2003 doesn't change the file for pre 2003 users.

As far as I can see the only place to change the format (ie: Access 2000 or Access 2002-2003) is under Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Default File Format. Is there any place else the format can be set/selected?