[Hello213213]

I have a question are all the microsoft word versions like 95, 97, 2000,
2002, and so on have backwards compatibility?

For example to show what I mean. If you have microsoft word 97 and save a
normal work file of writing, will it open up perfectly fine with a version
such as microsoft word 2002?

And also I guess a 2002 document wont open in 97, But you can save the file
as a 97 word document so it will work with 97?

Please explain how it works.

Thank you very much.

[Graham Mayor]

There is no essential difference between the Word document format used in
Word versions 97-2003 (and which 2007 can also open), however each succesive
version introduced certain formatting attributes that if included would not
be available to earlier versions. How they would be handled would rather
depend on what they are - suck it and see.

You can in later versions set the compatibility options so that those
features not available to earlier versions are not used.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




Hello213213 wrote:
I have a question are all the microsoft word versions like 95, 97,
2000, 2002, and so on have backwards compatibility?

For example to show what I mean. If you have microsoft word 97 and
save a normal work file of writing, will it open up perfectly fine
with a version such as microsoft word 2002?

And also I guess a 2002 document wont open in 97, But you can save
the file as a 97 word document so it will work with 97?

Please explain how it works.

Thank you very much.