Why not Word97?

[Adria Quinones <adriaq -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

Dear Techwr-l,
After what may be the longest lurk in history (4 years, I think), I have a reason to post.  

I have a new job at a great company with only one problem: they use Word97 running on XP.  As the newbie, I am carrying the torch for my writing colleagues and championing moving us to a different version (I'd say "later" but at this point I'm ready to vote for Word95).  I could use some help. 

Management's main concern--and not an unreasonable one--seems to be templates and file formats.  It seems like Word97-2002 files all are compatible.  Can anyone verify that for me?  Should there be a need for much reworking of templates that use VB programming?  I want to be prepared when I talk to the CTO.

I'm assuming most of you moved on years ago, so please, reply off-list and spare our colleagues.  If there's some kind of outpouring of interest, I'd be happy to sumarize ...


TIA,
Adria Quinones

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