converting a file from Ms Word 2003 to Ms word 2000

[sajith]

Hello,

I am quite new to Ms word. my company has got a file which
has been saved in Ms word 2003. What i have here in our
offfice is Ms word 2000. I tried to open the file. But it
showing some ascii characters. Is this the problem with
the conversion from ms word 2003 to ms word 2000. Or is
the file is been corrupted...How to rectify it...

Thanks in adavance for any help regarding in this matter...

Thanks & Regards
Sajith S

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Sajith

The file format hasn't changed since Word 97. So you can open a Word
2003 document in Word 97, 2000 or 2002. However, if the document used
features new to a later version of Word, then obviously the older
version isn't going to recognize them. For example, Word 2000 introduced
nested tables. Word 97 won't be able to recognize nested tables or
display them.

I've opened lots of Word 2003 documents in Word 2000, so there is not a
general problem. However:

1. Make sure you have applied the latest patch to Word 2003. Go to
http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and get it to detect what
patches you need.

2. Make sure that, when you do File > Open to open the file, the Files
of Type box is set to "All Files" or "All Word documents" or "Word
documents". If it's set to "Recover text from any file", you'll see junk
instead of your document.

3. If the document is corrupt, then see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia