[mso] Re: Word Versions: How compatible?

I find very little missing in these instances but I rarely look at it from
the document appearance side of things. From the VBA side almost
everything works the same but there are some properties and functions
available in XP that will fail in 2000 (because they aren't there!). In
fact, it's almost all application properties that are different. The huge
shift is the difference between Word 97 and Word 2000, not between 2000
and XP.

In fact, I didn't realize just how much the two have in common until I ran
into the different things for the first time while preparing the Word
Options Utility (http://www.mousetrax.com/downloads.html#wordoptions) for
release.

For the user XPerience (had to do that), features/curses like SmartTags,
click and type, etc. are not available. Also missing/different are the
comment tags (text boxes that appear to hang off the edge of the document.

Otherwise, and you know this, content built in one will work in the other.

Greg Chapman
http://www.mousetrax.com
"Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11!
With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?"


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Carneal
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:48 PM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Word Versions: How compatible?
>
>
> I have and use Office XP. Friends I send Word documents to
> are using Word
> 2000 (Office 2000) for the most part. I am starting to wonder
> what gets
> missing when they look at it? How compatible are the two
> versions if I send
> something in Word XP that is in plain vanilla, no pictures,
> no bolding, no
> underlining, no charts, no macros? But maybe -some-
> italicizing. Will Word
> 2000 accept it completely without changing anything?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Robert
>
>

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