Word 97 to Word 2000 Conversion

[Louis Manuel]

We currently have done an upgrade of one of our
applications that has Word embedded in it. In the older
version we had Word 97. The new version has Word 2000
installed.

When a user accesses a document which originated in Word 97
in the new Word 2000 enviroment a dialog box comes up which
states that the user can save the document in Word 2000 or
have it retained in Word 97. If the user saves it in Word
2000 the document becomes hidded. We have instructed our
users to save their old documents in Word 97. In cases were
users have mistakely saved in Word 2000 how do we retrieve
the documents that are hidden?
Lou Manuel

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Lou,

Word 97 and Word 2000 use the same .DOC file format
but Word 2000 does handle some features differently

There isn't a Word choice for a Word 97 .doc vs a
Word 2002 .doc (if you're using .doc as the file type),
but there is a feature setting in Tools=>Options=>Save
in Word 2000 to disable features exclusive to Word 2000
and you may be getting a dialog box that tells you what
items in your document might be changed, but it sounds
like you're getting something from the additional application
you're using and you'd need to check with the folks who
created that application, but you may want to check in
File=>open to show all files and see if it's being saved
under perhaps an .RTF rather than a .DOC file type.

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We currently have done an upgrade of one of our
applications that has Word embedded in it. In the older
version we had Word 97. The new version has Word 2000
installed.

When a user accesses a document which originated in Word 97
in the new Word 2000 enviroment a dialog box comes up which
states that the user can save the document in Word 2000 or
have it retained in Word 97. If the user saves it in Word
2000 the document becomes hidded. We have instructed our
users to save their old documents in Word 97. In cases were
users have mistakely saved in Word 2000 how do we retrieve
the documents that are hidden?
Lou Manuel >>
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Hope that helps,

Bob Buckland ? MS Office Products family MVP
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