Hi. A client of mine would like to establish a standard Word template for
their documents. They have different versions of Office in use: 2000, XP,
2003. If myself am using Office 2003. Are there any features that will not
carry over to older versions of Word, or, if changed on an older version of
Word, will not carry over to 2003?

Current plans are that the templates include styles, plus possibly minor
boilerplate text (cover page, footer); no macros.

Hi Patrick

Given what you describe, there are unlikely to be problems. General wisdom
says that you should create the template in Word 2000, since XP and 2003 are
unlikely to have problems with a template created in an older version of
Word, but Word 2000 is more likely to have problems coping with newer
templates. However, when I'm working from Word 2000 to Word 2003, I
nevertheless set the Styles & Formatting task pane to show the styles I
want, even though doing so will have no effect in Word 2000.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"Patrick" wrote in message
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Hi. A client of mine would like to establish a standard Word template for
their documents. They have different versions of Office in use: 2000, XP,
2003. If myself am using Office 2003. Are there any features that will not
carry over to older versions of Word, or, if changed on an older version
of
Word, will not carry over to 2003?

Current plans are that the templates include styles, plus possibly minor
boilerplate text (cover page, footer); no macros.