Force backward compatibility

[Paul Aviles]

We are looking into migrating to Office 2003 but want a migration approach.
There used to be a way to force a newer version of Office to force saving all
Docs by default into the old version so that the old users will not have any
issues opening files from users already migrated. I believe this was done
during the install or with policies. Any reference documents?

I know about the viewer, that is not an option.

Thanks

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Have you looked in the Office Resource Kit (freely available download from
Microsoft Office site) for assistance? There are many good tools in the kit
to customize your installation.

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After furious head scratching, Paul Aviles asked:

| We are looking into migrating to Office 2003 but want a migration
| approach. There used to be a way to force a newer version of Office
| to force saving all Docs by default into the old version so that the
| old users will not have any issues opening files from users already
| migrated. I believe this was done during the install or with
| policies. Any reference documents?
|
| I know about the viewer, that is not an option.
|
| Thanks

 

[Paul Aviles]

Yes I have and don't find anything there on how to do it.