Want to upgrade to Office 2004 for mac, but...

[joakridge]

Want to upgrade to the latest version of Office for mac, but will it
beable to open my very old Word v. 6 documents? Read somewhere that
Office 2004 can open documents as far back as Office 98. Have not
been able to confirm that. Word 6 came out in 95. What is the most
current Office product that will open my old documents?

 

[Phillip Jones]

Yes! I have some word 6 documents. I kept backups of the W6 documents.

But unless you have a new machine and can't run W6.0.1a then I would
hang on for another 4 months or so.

Office2008 is supposed to be out in a few months. which is somewhat
based on the PC Office2007 version just out that uses XML based
documents for everything.

One Caveat : if you use Visual Basic and an use Ms Equivalent to Apple
script. They will no longer work.

Want to upgrade to the latest version of Office for mac, but will it
beable to open my very old Word v. 6 documents? Read somewhere that
Office 2004 can open documents as far back as Office 98. Have not
been able to confirm that. Word 6 came out in 95. What is the most
current Office product that will open my old documents?

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[Phillip Jones]

It will save in the new format "if" you go to Save As and select Word
format.

As Phillip says you should have no problem opening Word 6 docs with 2004,
but you should also be aware, IIRC, that 2004 doesn't *save* in that format.
It saves in a 6/95 RTF, but it's most likely you'll want to save them in a
current format anyway.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
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[John McGhie]

Hi Phillip:

Bob's point was that Word 2004 will not save in Word 6 format. Yes, it will
upgrade the document to the later format, but it will read but not write the
older one.

This is by design, to stop the spreading problem in corporations of
documents in the old format that never get upgraded until ultimately they
become corrupted because their old format will not support the new
capabilities of later versions of Word.

You will still see the odd (very odd...) Word 2 format document in corporate
usage...

Cheers

It will save in the new format "if" you go to Save As and select Word
format.

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[Phillip Jones]

I think That's what I said? That it can be saved but you must go to save
as menu and choose Word document which converts it to the new system.?

Have I said it more correctly this time? ;-)

Hi Phillip:

Bob's point was that Word 2004 will not save in Word 6 format. Yes, it will
upgrade the document to the later format, but it will read but not write the
older one.

This is by design, to stop the spreading problem in corporations of
documents in the old format that never get upgraded until ultimately they
become corrupted because their old format will not support the new
capabilities of later versions of Word.

You will still see the odd (very odd...) Word 2 format document in corporate
usage...

Cheers

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[John McGhie]

Yup! You were not "wrong", but he might have taken the impression that Word
2004 can read AND write Word 6 format. It can only read it

I think That's what I said? That it can be saved but you must go to save
as menu and choose Word document which converts it to the new system.?

Have I said it more correctly this time? ;-)

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