Quoting Tzafrir Cohen, from the post of Thu, 02 Jan: > Frankly, there is no "ms-word" format. There are a bunch of > (non-compatible) formats: word2, word6, word7(95), word8(97), word9(2000), > word10(xp) and now there is a word11 (.net?).
MS swore on their mother's grave that OfficeXP is bit-by-bit compatible with Office2K (word, Excell and all) and all the feature changes between the versions are cosmetic in the GUI but not the internals. I'm not sure about it. however one thing is known, that Office.NET will have XML fileformat by default (though the current beta has it only as an option, oddly enough). in other words: - Office.NET formats may be more "open", or at least WAY easier to get compatible with. - the files will be even larger still than today's files, but highly compressible as ML files tend to have a lot of string repetitions :) -- Brainless prettyboy Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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