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Lynn
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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Don MI
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
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
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Karen
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?
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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Lynn
Hi KarenKaren 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?
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.
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE
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.
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.
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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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE
Frank is correct here.
Meaning I'm usually not correct?
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Frank said:Meaning I'm usually not correct?
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No, I meant that when you are here, you are always correct. <bg>
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