Visio 2002 can't read 2003 files saved in 2002 format

[David K]

Several of the visio diagrams I created in the trial
version of Visio 2003 and saved in Visio 2002 format are
unreadable in Visio 2002.

Are there features in Visio 2003 that cannot be converted
to Visio 2002 even using the "save as" feature?

 

[Barb Way]

None of the features of a 2003 drawing would prevent saving back to 2002.
I think the problem you are seeing is a bug, which was found after the Beta
was released, and fixed before the final version shipped. As far as I
know, the shipping version of Visio 2003 saves back to 2002 without the
problem you are seeing.

Can you open the files in 2003 now? If so, you will need to save them as
2002 format files again.