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Subject:Re: Word 7/ Word 8 compatibility problems, again From:barryk -at- MDHOST -dot- CSE -dot- TEK -dot- COM Date:Mon, 13 Oct 1997 14:34:26 -0700
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Sandy Dryer wrote:
> One of our clients, who's in - I'll call it Word 8, I get hopelessly
> confused if I start saying "Word 97" - can't even open the documents.
>
> Does this problem ring a bell? I've been searching the archives and can't
> find this exact problem listed - my apologies to all if I missed something
> obvious.
>
Yep, Microsoft has a patch.
Word 8 saves all documents in RTF (Rich Text Format). It was believed by
MS that their would not be a backwards compatibility problem, but their
is.
The patch can be down loaded from the Microsoft site (microsoft.com) for
free; that is the cost is nothing, the patch is almost 8Meg. It takes a
long time to down load.
Hope this helps!
Barry Kieffer
Tektronix, Inc.
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