In the Word File Open dialog, choose the Properties view. This will give
more version information than is actually given in File | Properties.

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"Vivek" wrote in message
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Hi ALL

I receive the wordfiles from diverse sources. I want to know is there a
way
by which I can know what platform(PC or MAC) the word file was made in. In
addition to it I really need to know the version(Word 97,XP,8.0) of the
word
in whcih the word file was made