Word 2000 Compatibility with Word 2003 (+ Visio)

[techjohnny]

I have a user that was able to view a Visio Document (2003) in Word
2000 until another user in Word 2003 w/ Visio opened and made changes
to the document.

Now the user in Word 2000 is unable to view all the pages. The
document is actually 4-pages, but she can only view 2-pages.

Any ideas? Does the user need to also have Visio installed to view
the flow chart? I installed Word 2003 viewer on the user's machine,
and now the Word doc after the alterations views perfectly.

Any help would be great.

Regards,

--TJ

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello TJ

I have a user that was able to view a Visio Document (2003) in Word
2000 until another user in Word 2003 w/ Visio opened and made changes
to the document.

Now the user in Word 2000 is unable to view all the pages. The
document is actually 4-pages, but she can only view 2-pages.

Any ideas? Does the user need to also have Visio installed to view
the flow chart? I installed Word 2003 viewer on the user's machine,
and now the Word doc after the alterations views perfectly.

Cross-version "compatibility" with inserted objects has not been
Office's strength (at least historically, i.e, between Office 97 and XP).

Generally speaking, if you insert an OLE object (i.e., allowing the user
in Word to double-click on the Visio object starting up Visio "in
place"), then it is my understanding that the serving application (in
this case: Visio) had better be present on any machine the document is
opened. It might and might not work with displaying/printing the
object's content, but you certainly cannot in-place edit it w/o Visio.

0.2cents
Robert