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Using Word 2003 docs with Office/Word 97
Have Office 97 installed on Win xp system and have used Word 97 for years
with no problems. Just installed a program that has form letters (with mail merge macros) in it that were created in Word 2003. They actually have a .pcd extension. I'm being told that in order to properly open these files, I need to upgrade to Word 2003. Is there a work-around/patch/converter that will work? Returning the software is not an option. -- Barth Buchmann |
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Since .pcd is not a Word extension, there is clearly more than Word
involved. Web sources suggest that the .pcd extension is used for Photo CD (obviously irrelevant) and "Microsoft Visual Test compiled script." The only KB reference I can find to "Test" in combination with ".pcd" is "SUR and 16-bit Clients Must Run Separate Versions of TEST" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=145793; all the other KB articles about ..pcd seem to refer to the Photo CD format. KB articles referring to "Visual Test" seem to reference Visual SourceSafe and Systems Management Server. All of which seems to suggest that even installing Office 2003 might not help. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Barth Buchmann" wrote in message ... Have Office 97 installed on Win xp system and have used Word 97 for years with no problems. Just installed a program that has form letters (with merge macros) in it that were created in Word 2003. They actually have a ..pcd extension. I'm being told that in order to properly open these files, I need to upgrade to Word 2003. Is there a work-around/patch/converter that will work? Returning the software is not an option. -- Barth Buchmann |
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