The only difference between Office 2000 and Office 2000 premium is the
additional Office components -- Word is identical in both.

Copy the file from the disk to your hard disk, then open it from there.


"Dazzlin Dave" Dazzlin wrote in message
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My son has a document saved on disk from Word Office 2000 premium edition.
At home we have Word Office 2000 (obviously not premium edition). How can
we
access this file so he can finish his paper. Already tried to open on
wordpad and no luck...Please help