Word 2003 reading Word 2000

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KellyL

I work in Word 2000 and I was working on an existing
document - made changes to it and then emailed it to a
client who has Word 2003. He could see every change I
made - as if I had tracked changes on (which I didn't).
Is that a problem with Word 2003 reading old Word versions?
 
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Raghu Prakash

Hi Kelly,

There is no problem with Word 2003 reading earlier verisons.
Since document formats in Office 2003 Editions are the same as those in
Office XP, Office 2000, and Office 97, they are compatible with those
versions.

Specifically:

• Binary File formats for Excel 2003, PowerPoint 2003, and Word 2003 remain
the same and are compatible with previous versions dating to Office 97.

• An Outlook Personal Folders file (.pst) can now be saved as a new binary
format, which uses Unicode and increases the storage limit to approximately
20 gigabytes (GB). An Outlook 2003 .pst file is not compatible with
previous versions of Outlook, but the old format is the default.

• Access 2003 has no change to the file format as previous versions, so you
can open Access 2003 files in Microsoft Access version 2002. Note There is
an Access 2000 file format, in addition to Access 2003 and Access 2002 file
formats. The Access 2000 file format is the default, but users or
administrators can change the default to Access 2003 or Access 2002 formats.

Turn on or off features introduced in recent versions of Word
You must have a document open in Microsoft Word to follow these steps.

On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Save tab.
Select or clear the Disable features introduced after check box, and then
select the version that you want.
When you save the document, if your document contains items that will be
converted, Word displays a list of the features it will convert so that the
document can be used in previous versions.

Please let me know has this helped You...

Thank You...
Raghu...
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 
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Herb Tyson [MVP]

You probably DID have tracking turned on, but were not aware of it, AND the
view was set to display Final only. A new feature in Word 2003 is that when
you open a file that contains tracked changes, it ignores the view
previously saved, and instead sets it to Final Showing Markup.

This is different from previous versions of Word. In Word 2000/2002, if you
save/close a document with Final set as the view, then that's what you see
when you reopen it. However, if you open the same file in Word 2003, the
view is set to Final Showing Markup.

I see this all the time. A client working in Word 2000 is completely unaware
that tracking is turned on, and starts to see odd "problems" with a
document, which really are a manifestation of lots and lots of marked
changes. They send the document to me for diagnosis and repair, and the
problem is immediately obvious to me... because I'm using Word 2003.
 
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