XP to W98SE

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My new laptop has XP Home edition and my desktop has W98SE. I was told the other day that if I saved a document on my laptop which is running XP and Works that I would not be able to run it on W98SE with my Office 2000. Is this true?
 
My new laptop has XP Home edition and my desktop has W98SE. I was told the
other day that if I saved a document on my laptop which is running XP and
Works that I would not be able to run it on W98SE with my Office 2000. Is
this true?
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Lynn
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Depends on the document.
Word can open Works *.wps files if you have the needed converter installed.
If you need a converter not included in Office 2000, you can download one
from Microsoft.
Excel and Access will not open Works spreadsheet or database files.

Don
 
My new laptop has XP Home edition and my desktop has W98SE. I was told the
other day that if I saved a document on my laptop which is running XP and
Works that I would not be able to run it on W98SE with my Office 2000. Is
this true?
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Lynn
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Yes unless you save the document from Works in a format that can be read by
Word such as .rtf

Why not install Office on both computers?
 
Karen said:
My new laptop has XP Home edition and my desktop has W98SE. I was told the
other day that if I saved a document on my laptop which is running XP and
Works that I would not be able to run it on W98SE with my Office 2000. Is
this true?
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Lynn
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Yes unless you save the document from Works in a format that can be read by
Word such as .rtf

Why not install Office on both computers?
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Hi Karen
I think that may be the answer. I like Office 2000. If I installed and use Office 2000 on XP would I then be able to open files on both computers? Would it be worth uninstalling Works if I am only going to use Office 2000 I am presuming Works doesn't have anything that Office 2000 doesn't already have but perhaps I'm wrong, not familiar with Works. I was given the impression that Xp to 98 was the problem not Works to Office perhaps I misunderstood.
 
Lynn said:
Hi Karen
I think that may be the answer. I like Office 2000. If I installed
and use Office 2000 on XP would I then be able to open files on both
computers?
Yes

Would it be worth uninstalling Works if I am only going to
use Office 2000 I am presuming Works doesn't have anything that
Office 2000 doesn't already have but perhaps I'm wrong, not familiar
with Works. I was given the impression that Xp to 98 was the problem
not Works to Office perhaps I misunderstood.
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Whether or not you uninstall Works is up to you. It is a simpler program.

Some people seem to thenk there should be a problem copying a file from an
NTFS drive to a FAT32 drive, but they are wrong. Copying a file from WinXP
to Win98 is no problem. The only problem would be if the Win98 system
didn't have the proper program for opening the file type.

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Lynn said:
I think that may be the answer. I like Office 2000. If I installed
and use Office 2000 on XP would I then be able to open files on both
computers? Would it be worth uninstalling Works if I am only going to
use Office 2000 I am presuming Works doesn't have anything that
Office 2000 doesn't already have but perhaps I'm wrong, not familiar
with Works. I was given the impression that Xp to 98 was the problem
not Works to Office perhaps I misunderstood.
Click to expand...

Lynn

Frank is correct here. The only issue is the program you are using to create
and view the files, not the operating system they are created on. A document
created in Word 2000 on an XP operating system will be perfectly fine when
opened in Word 2000 on a Windows 98 operating system.

Even if you were using Word 2003 to create a document, it still has an
option to save the file in a form that can be viewed and changed in Word
2000.

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