Possible to use macros saved in Office 2003 when downgrading to xp

[nosurfdj]

my organization has third party software that uses Word to display certain
types of reports. the third party software doesn't work with word 2003, but
does work with word xp. however, i have a bunch of macros that I don't want
to lose.
If I were to downgrade to Office XP, can I still use my macros from Office
2003 simply by saving my normal.dot file? If not, is there any other way to
do this?
Thanks

 

[Graham Mayor]

I'm curious about how the third-party software fails to work with
Word 2003.

I was curious about that. Could it be that because Word 2003 post dates the
third party software that its add-in is in the wrong Office startup folder
and thus Word no longer sees it?

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[nosurfdj]

Thanks for the info Jay.
The third party software is a hospital IS. It uses Word to basically print
everything from a server hospital wide.
Docs can view transcription results in one of the modules, but for some
reason it doesn't work with Word 2003. I don't know exactly why it doesn't
work, but I have been told that with Word 2003, development will have to do
more programming to get it to work. (it does work with Word 2000 and Word
XP).
Thanks again Jay.