On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Carl Houseman<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

  I was still a starry-eyed junior IT guy in the Office 95/97
timeframe.  I don't remember the details of Office all that all that
well.  I'll take your word for it.  (No pun intended.)

> For those of us who knew that pattern, it was unusual that there was
> no file format change for the 2000 and 2003 versions.

  So office 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003 all used compatible file formats.
 That's four in a row!  ;-)

-- Ben

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