To elaborate on what Carl has pointed out, this is why the save as dialog now offers the "97-2003" format as a single entity. It didn't used to be that way at all.
-ASB ------- http://Home.ASBzone.com/ASB/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/AndrewBaker ------- 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. 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 > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
