If you were doing I.T. before 1997, you'd know that Excel changed file
formats in an a backward-incompatible way with every new version up to and
including the '97 release.  That was true for Word and PPT as well.   For
those of us who knew that pattern, it was unusual that there was no file
format change for the 2000 and 2003 versions.

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 9:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Excel Upgrade Advice

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Sherry Abercrombie<[email protected]>
wrote:
> There was probably the same type of tool for 2003 > 2000 sharing.

  There didn't need to be.  Prior to Excel 2007, all versions of Excel
used a fairly similar file format.  Older versions couldn't use
features from newer versions, but they could open the files.

> This person is probably not going to like Excel 2007....I don't like it
and
> I went from Office 2003 to 2007, so I can't imagine what it would be like
to
> go from 2000 to 2007, yikes that's crazy.

  It shouldn't be that much different.  Prior to Excel 2007, all
versions of Excel used a fairly similar user interface.

  Are we seeing the pattern yet?

-- Ben



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