Word 2008 compatibility

[kehrer1701]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have heard that Office Mac Word 2008 is not compatible with some older PC Word file formats from older office versions.

 

[John McGhie]

That's correct. But we are talking about some SERIOUSLY old file formats
here: back to Word for DOS days.

Anything used in the past 10 years will be fine.

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have heard that Office Mac Word 2008 is not compatible with some older PC
Word file formats from older office versions.

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[CyberTaz]

Further to John's comments, even files created in the DOS Age can be opened
by other versions of Word on the PC & by translator programs such as MacLink
Plus from DataViz. They can then be saved in a more contemporary format
which the later versions of Mac Word can read & work with - although some
reformatting may be necessary.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[steve]

Can the 1995 version of Word in PC be opened by Mac Office 08?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Put it this way: one document I just saved in Word 95 .doc format opened
fine in Word 2008. Whether all Word 95 documents will open, and what will be
lost (e.g. objects etc. that Mac does not understand) I could not tell you.
If you still have your copy of Word 95 and only need to convert reasonably
small numbers of documents it would probably be worth saving as .rtf format
as well as .doc format from Word 95, just in case.

 

[John McGhie]

There are five Word formats:

Word DOS, Word 2, Word 6, Word 8, and WordML.

These correspond to:

1) Word DOS: Word 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5.5, 6 for DOS

2) Word 2: Word 1, 2, 5 on the Macintosh, Word 2 in Windows.

3) Word 6: Word 6 for the Mac, Word 6, and Word 95 on the PC.

4) Word 8: Word 98 through Word 2004 on the Mac, Word 97 through Word 2003
on the PC.

5) WordML: Word 2007 on the PC, Word 2008 on the Mac.

The latest versions of Word on sale now do not have converters for Word DOS
or Word 2 formats (numbers 1 and 2).

Cheers

Can the 1995 version of Word in PC be opened by Mac Office 08?

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[Clive Huggan]

There are five Word formats:

2) Word 2: Word 1, 2, 5 on the Macintosh, Word 2 in Windows.

That's Word 1, 3, 4 and 5 <nostalgic sigh>, John -- I can just, only just,
remember there was no Word 2 on the Mac.

Just so you know I still read your posts... ;-)

Clive
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[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

That getting back even before my time.

The first version I dealt with was Word 6.0.1.a and Excel 5.0.1.a
(Equivalent to word 95/Excel95) except for the handling of envelopes and
Mail Merge, to this day I believe as the best W/E in existence. I was
able to do a lot more with them than I can with 2008.

creating envelopes was still handled better, and if existed today
WordPerfect for Mac. you typed in person address created the desired
envelope. Then if you needed to create another envelope, you would go to
envelopes choose the name in the list, boom you envelope was pre set up
and read to go. No required list from Excel. just choose a person or
group of people and you were ready to print.

That's Word 1, 3, 4 and 5 <nostalgic sigh>, John -- I can just, only just,
remember there was no Word 2 on the Mac.

Just so you know I still read your posts... ;-)

Clive
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[Peter Jamieson]

From my geekuseum - I thought there was a 6th, namely Word 1 for Windows,
because Word 1 cannot open Word 2 for Windows format files, even though they
may be very similar. Maybe WfW1 used the DOS Word format - except WfW1 has
the type of field codes that AFAIK did not exist in the DOS version.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Phillip:

Well, yeah, but Clive is ANCIENT

Cheers

That getting back even before my time.

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[John McGhie]

Did Word 1 for Windows ever actually get onto the market?

From my geekuseum - I thought there was a 6th, namely Word 1 for Windows,
because Word 1 cannot open Word 2 for Windows format files, even though they
may be very similar. Maybe WfW1 used the DOS Word format - except WfW1 has
the type of field codes that AFAIK did not exist in the DOS version.

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[Peter Jamieson]

Yes. AFAICR Word 1 came with a copy of Windows (can't remember which
version, but probably Windows 286). I tried to re-install it here a few
years ago but the floppy disks had deteriorated too much and working 5.25in
floppy drives disappeared off the face of the earth. However I have the vast
majority of my copy of Word 1.1 running here under WFWG3.11 in a VM. Runs
rather well in fact.

I could have been the only person on the planet who bought a copy of course

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Well he must be! I'll be 60 in March. and the oldest version I ever
used was 6.0.1a word (in PC land it was Widows95).

Before windows came along (I was working at school system as electronics
Tech) we used WordPerfect 5.1 from WordPerfect.

I hope I will be half as smart and intelligent when I get Clive's age. ;-)

Hi Phillip:

Well, yeah, but Clive is ANCIENT

Cheers

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[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

That should be Word95 not windows95 Sorry about that

Well he must be! I'll be 60 in March. and the oldest version I ever
used was 6.0.1a word (in PC land it was Widows95).

Before windows came along (I was working at school system as electronics
Tech) we used WordPerfect 5.1 from WordPerfect.

I hope I will be half as smart and intelligent when I get Clive's age. ;-)

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[John McGhie]

Oh, when you get to Clive's age, you will indeed be only half as smart as
you are now ...

I know it's safe to take shots at him, because he is away
Grand-Daughter-doting today

God help us when he gets back tomorrow...

Cheers

That should be Word95 not windows95 Sorry about that

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