Syncing documents created with PC Word 2002 and Mac 2008

[Michael Kalm]

At my office, I use Microsoft Word 2002 on my PC and at home, I use Microsoft
Word for Mac 2008. It is important for me to keep documents created on both
platforms synchronized. Is there a way to do that? Do I have to save word
documents in a particular format to do that?
Thanks for your help.

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Michael

At my office, I use Microsoft Word 2002 on my PC and at home, I use Microsoft
Word for Mac 2008. It is important for me to keep documents created on both
platforms synchronized. Is there a way to do that? Do I have to save word
documents in a particular format to do that?

Word has a compare feature you might have a look into. I'm generally
rather dubious about it's workings when dealing with cross-version
files, and in your case that's ceratinly cross version enough to worry
me.

But since you're not really working parallel on both files, why not
simply take the file with you on a removable medium? Don't open the file
directly, say, from a USB memory, but move it to the HD and then open it.

The folks over on microsoft.public.mac.office.word might know best which
format to choose in your situation.

HTH
Robert