Re: Will Templates/Documents Created In Word X For Mac Function In Word 08

Hi Dave:

I would imagine you will be safe enough to upgrade those templates and
documents to Word 2008.

The answer is critically dependent upon what is IN the templates :-)

If you want to wait a little longer, there will be a Test Drive version of
Office 2008 that you can download.

You will then have 30 days to try it out to make sure, before you spend any
money.

Don't upgrade your Operating System if you can avoid it: Word 2008 is
currently very, very sick on OS 10.5.

Cheers

On 3/04/08 2:46 PM, in article ee97408.-1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"VayaconDave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <VayaconDave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Version: v.X
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

Hello,

I've created templates and a long document in Word X For Mac - Service Release
1 (1983-2001). The templates were created from scratch with no knowledge of
what I was doing, but, miraculously, they have all worked flawlessly since
2001. I use them everyday to write home inspection reports. Mainly due to
paranoia (possibly well founded), I have never upgraded to any newer Word for
Mac versions, since I depend entirely on the templates and document for my
business. I want to purchase the newest intel IMac, along with the newest Word
for Mac 08, but the huge question is: Will I be able to open and use my old
templates and documents by importing them to the new computer and using Word
08? Will I loose any functionality (the templates are fairly simple - a number
of tables and the rest just text, not even in a text field)?

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and for any help you can provide,

Dave

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