[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Chris Scheers]

FrankS wrote:
> On Jan 9, 4:47 pm, Chris Scheers <ch... at applied-synergy.com> wrote:
>> With the 2007 compatibility kit, Word 2000 can READ and use .docx files.
>>
> 
> From: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/ha100444731033.aspx
> 
> "Although you can open Office Word 2007 files in previous versions of
> Word, you may not be able to change some items that were created by
> using the new or enhanced features in Office Word 2007. For example,
> equations will become images that cannot be changed. The following is
> a list of document elements that are changed when they are opened in a
> previous version of Word. ..."

Thank you for that reference.  I had not seen it before.

While I do not use it myself, I can say that I set up the 2007 
compatibility pack for my daughter to use with Word 2000.  She uses it 
to exchange .docx documents within her team (mixed versions of Word) and 
no one has had any problems.

And they do use equations heavily, but I think the equations are created 
in an earlier version of Equation Editor and not in Word 2007 itself.

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