Hi -

I work for a large company with global offices. I created about 11 technical
manuals in Word 2000 with lots of graphics and complicated formatting. They
range in length from well over 400 pages to about 100 pages, in size, they
are all below 10 mg.

My company is slowly but surely moving to Word 2003, pretty much one user at
a time, but its starting to affect me. Whenever someone sends me a file
created in 2003 and I try to edit it using 2000, the file corrupts. This is
also why I have not updated myself to 2003, as my manual files corrupt
horribly in 2003 and would take many hours to recreate.

Is there a secret to converting older versions of Word to 2003? I can't
spend any money to have it done by an outside vendor, but I really need to
upgrade without spending weeks to fix my manuals.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

There is no difference between Word 2003 and Word 2000 that would cause that
problem (with the documents created in Word 2000 that is) There are a few
features in Word 2003 that are not available in Word 2000 that could cause a
problem if you were moving backwards.

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consulting basis.

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Lin" wrote in message
...
Hi -

I work for a large company with global offices. I created about 11
technical
manuals in Word 2000 with lots of graphics and complicated formatting.
They
range in length from well over 400 pages to about 100 pages, in size, they
are all below 10 mg.

My company is slowly but surely moving to Word 2003, pretty much one user
at
a time, but its starting to affect me. Whenever someone sends me a file
created in 2003 and I try to edit it using 2000, the file corrupts. This
is
also why I have not updated myself to 2003, as my manual files corrupt
horribly in 2003 and would take many hours to recreate.

Is there a secret to converting older versions of Word to 2003? I can't
spend any money to have it done by an outside vendor, but I really need to
upgrade without spending weeks to fix my manuals.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Removing the question of corruption, my formatting is badly disrupted by
converting from 2000 to 2003. This is a big deal in my circumstances. I keep
my original templates on my D drive (not in the templates folder on the C
drive), which works fine with 2000. Is there a setting I'm missing?

Please help, this is a REAL problem.

Lin

"Doug Robbins" wrote:

There is no difference between Word 2003 and Word 2000 that would cause that
problem (with the documents created in Word 2000 that is) There are a few
features in Word 2003 that are not available in Word 2000 that could cause a
problem if you were moving backwards.

--
Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be
interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid
consulting basis.

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Lin" wrote in message
...
Hi -

I work for a large company with global offices. I created about 11
technical
manuals in Word 2000 with lots of graphics and complicated formatting.
They
range in length from well over 400 pages to about 100 pages, in size, they
are all below 10 mg.

My company is slowly but surely moving to Word 2003, pretty much one user
at
a time, but its starting to affect me. Whenever someone sends me a file
created in 2003 and I try to edit it using 2000, the file corrupts. This
is
also why I have not updated myself to 2003, as my manual files corrupt
horribly in 2003 and would take many hours to recreate.

Is there a secret to converting older versions of Word to 2003? I can't
spend any money to have it done by an outside vendor, but I really need to
upgrade without spending weeks to fix my manuals.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Point Word to the templates folder you wish to use - tools options file
locations user templates.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Lin wrote:
Removing the question of corruption, my formatting is badly disrupted
by converting from 2000 to 2003. This is a big deal in my
circumstances. I keep my original templates on my D drive (not in the
templates folder on the C drive), which works fine with 2000. Is
there a setting I'm missing?

Please help, this is a REAL problem.

Lin

"Doug Robbins" wrote:

There is no difference between Word 2003 and Word 2000 that would
cause that problem (with the documents created in Word 2000 that is)
There are a few features in Word 2003 that are not available in Word
2000 that could cause a problem if you were moving backwards.

--
Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be
interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on
a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Lin" wrote in message
...
Hi -

I work for a large company with global offices. I created about 11
technical
manuals in Word 2000 with lots of graphics and complicated
formatting. They
range in length from well over 400 pages to about 100 pages, in
size, they are all below 10 mg.

My company is slowly but surely moving to Word 2003, pretty much
one user at
a time, but its starting to affect me. Whenever someone sends me a
file created in 2003 and I try to edit it using 2000, the file
corrupts. This is
also why I have not updated myself to 2003, as my manual files
corrupt horribly in 2003 and would take many hours to recreate.

Is there a secret to converting older versions of Word to 2003? I
can't spend any money to have it done by an outside vendor, but I
really need to upgrade without spending weeks to fix my manuals.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.