compatibility

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my school hasn't installed the windows xp version - they are on windows 9
my home computer came with word perfect 11. the school has word 200
are these compatible...can i use one cd and run between the two systems
if they are not...is there a fairly way to make it happen? you can e-mai
me off line if you choose.

 

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| my school hasn't installed the windows xp version - they are on windows 98
| my home computer came with word perfect 11. the school has word 2002
| are these compatible...can i use one cd and run between the two systems?
| if they are not...is there a fairly way to make it happen? you can e-mail
| me off line if you choose.

 

[Jim Macklin]

You can open either WORD or WP in either program. You can
also save the files using the "save as" command in many
formats. As far as using one CD, it depends on what method
you use to burn the CD. CD-RW with drag and drop packet
writing is most problematical, you must have the same
burning/reading software on each computer.

If you email homework to the school I suggest that you use
the RTF universal text format. Both WORD and WP will open
RTF files without any problem.


| my school hasn't installed the windows xp version - they
are on windows 98
| my home computer came with word perfect 11. the school has
word 2002
| are these compatible...can i use one cd and run between
the two systems?
| if they are not...is there a fairly way to make it happen?
you can e-mail
| me off line if you choose.

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

They both create documents in different formats. However, when you create a
document in Word Perfect, click the File menu, select save as and in the
file type dropdown box, look for Word or Rich text, if it can save in either
of those file types, they can be opened in Word. Opening Word documents in
Word Perfect can be more problematic since you don't have control over how
others will save their files and I'm not sure Word has a Word Perfect
option. However, there is a viewer available that would allow you to read
Word documents, understand, it will only let you read them, not make any
changes to them:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asp

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[wojo]

Yes Michael Word does have an installable filter to save in WP format.