Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 12, 2004 11:20 PM
I thought Word 97 could read the Word 2003 files even today? Wasn't it the change from Word 95 to Word 97 and the annoyed users what convinced them that they better stick with one format? I expect there are some features of later versions that Word 97 can't render but the basic file format is supposed to be the same.
Speaking as a Mac user who has to use Office X on a daily basis I think it is a dreaful piece of rubbish and the sooner we get a native Aqua version of OpenOffice the better. Office X is one of the most buggy and unstable pieces of software it has even been my misfortune to use and even with its much vaunted file format compatibility it still has trouble with files created on Windows version of Office and vice versa. I have been fighting with PowerPoint on my mac editing a Windows PowerPoint file and the damn thing has been crashing so much I am almost despairing. Not to mention the font problems that Word has when transfering files back and forth. Yuck!
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 12, 2004 11:20 PMSpeaking as a Mac user who has to use Office X on a daily basis I think it is a dreaful piece of rubbish and the sooner we get a native Aqua version of OpenOffice the better. Office X is one of the most buggy and unstable pieces of software it has even been my misfortune to use and even with its much vaunted file format compatibility it still has trouble with files created on Windows version of Office and vice versa. I have been fighting with PowerPoint on my mac editing a Windows PowerPoint file and the damn thing has been crashing so much I am almost despairing. Not to mention the font problems that Word has when transfering files back and forth. Yuck!
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