And here I thought that the newer versions of Office could open any files
from the older versions, but not always vice versa.
I first bought Office 95 around 1996.
In 97, my brother ran a copy of office 97 on his computer, and when it
crashed, not having the original to be able to reinstall it, he grabbed my
95 CD and installed it. he quickly found out that 97 used files that 95
could not open.
I since use office 2000, and now office 2003, and have not found any files
that I could not open, except for a couple of very new files that may have
been created on an even later version of office.
It seems to be a matter of making newer versions change file types just
enough to make people upgrade when they should not need to.
I also have Star Office, supposed to run under Windows as well as Linux and
such.
I found the big drawback with it was that it could not find the #$^&***
printer....
have not tried it since.
Anyone know how compatible Office 97 is with XP? I know someone who
>> just installed it but they don't know if they can expect all the
>> features to play.
>>
>
> I installed both Office 97 and an early version of Microsoft Works for
> Windows, on XP, and they both ran fine.
>
> There are some incompatibility issues between Office 97 and later
> versions, though, so it is not a good choice if you want to use it to
> make files that will be distributed to other people.
>
> The reason I installed those earlier version, was for customer
> support... I had a client who owned some old files she could not open
> in a later version of Office.
