Web Kracked wrote: > Here is something I have found out about MS Office and the older file > formats. > MS Office, the newest versions, have big problems with their own older > file formats. > I had some old MS Office files from Win 95/98 days and none were able > to be used > with the current version of MS Office. ALSO, you are told that you > can save your > files to those older formats for backwards compatibility, but that > never worked for me. > So it may not be your files but MS Office. > > As for using them in OpenOffice.org, they worked for me, and then I > converted them > to OOo formats. Microsoft has a history of limiting backward compatibility to force upgrades. If you're in an office, you have to keep the versions fairly current so that all computers can share documents. This sometimes also means updating Windows and computer hardware. By comparison, any version of OOo can save in the old StarOffice formats and OOo v1.1.5 can read the ODF formats. This means that an old computer running even Windows 95 can share documents with the latest and greatest version of OOo.
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