Can you take a file from 2003 to 2000?

[Guest]

I have office 2003 at home. Can I take Excel/Word files from my office pc
(office 2000), work on them at home and then go back to the office 2000 at
work and bring them up?

 

[Hank Scorpio]

I have office 2003 at home. Can I take Excel/Word files from my office pc
(office 2000), work on them at home and then go back to the office 2000 at
work and bring them up?

Generally yes. There hasn't been any real change in the basic Excel
and Word document formats between those versions. (Unlike Access.) The
main things you have to be careful of are:
(a) Don't use any of the more advanced VBA methods which relate to
2002 onwards if you're writing macros; and
(b) If password protecting, stay with a password protection type
that will work with 2000. (I can't remember whether all of 2003's are
supported in 2000, but just play it safe.)

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Yes - XL97/00/02/03 files have identical formats (and are identical to
MacXL 98/01/v.X/04)