Office 2003 Compatibilty with Previous

[Tim Miller]

I've got 1 copy of Office 2003, and I'm considering starting it on any new
computers I put in the office. Most everyone else is on Office 2000 (and a
couple on XP). Do we know yet if I'm going to have any trouble with version
compatibility? I don't want to have to save my 2003 Word documents special
(save as Word 2K) in order for the 2000 versions to open them.
Any comments??

 

[Eric Lawrence [MSFT]]

Compatibility is generally very good. With the exception of Access, I
believe none of the file formats have changed.

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Eric Lawrence
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[Tim Miller]

Are 2003 users opening up 2000 documents, access files, etc going to get the
annoying "do you want to convert" messages?
Thanks for the reply!

 

[Kolin Tregaskes]

Quick tip, if you can I would install a fresh copy of Office on your
systems. I upgraded two machines and the upgrade from XP to 2003 left a lot
of stuff behind and a few little problems.

Kol