> On or about 1/10/2006 11:05 PM Bill McIntyre AKA [EMAIL PROTECTED] eruditely mused the following:
>For instance, she has a lot of old MS Word stuff on her computer. >Will she be able to open any of it with the Intel machine? I have an >educator's edition of MS Word 2004 that opened all my old files and >says that it can be installed on two machines. I presume that if she >got a Motorola iMac, I could install Word and she would be able to >open her old files. But if she gets an Intel machine, my Word 2000 >wouldn't work and all her old files would be lost. Bill, I am virtually sure that I can say that old Word files can be opened by any newer version of Word. I have never had a problem and some of my Word files were written with Word 4.0 back in the early 90s, or maybe even the late 1980's and I currently have Word 10.x All you need is a version that works on your 'new' computer and move your old files onto it. While Office 2004 is listed as a trial version on the new MacBook, the mactopia site does not gave any additional information that would confirm the current Office 2004 will work. Maybe Office has been compiles with Universal Binaries or maybe it works with Rosetta. I don't know the answer to that. Check out <http://www.apple.com/rosetta/>. Bottom line, one way or another your wife will not lose her old Word files. Cheers Karl ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
