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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
