Re: COMPATIBILITY

I am afraid someone has been telling you some outrageous rubbish :-)

Either that, or you are trolling :-)

Yes, PC Word versions earlier than Office 2007 need an update to read the
new PC/Mac Word formats. That was pushed out to them automatically, more
than two years ago, well before Office 2008 was released. I would be very
surprised if ANYONE on a PC has not had it for more than a year.

While it is true that you "can" save back to the old format, you should be
aware that the old format cannot store some of the modern features you might
want to use (You will be warned, but if you proceed with the downgrade, it
will delete content). And it takes up more than twice as much disk space.

So rather that setting it as your default save format, my suggestion would
be to leave the current format as the default, and save back to the old
unreliable format only when you encounter a user on a version earlier than
Office X who can't use the converter.

Hope this helps

On 28/09/08 10:33 AM, in article 59b5ac9a.-1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Jewels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <Jewels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

I've read the recent comments on the compatibility and am I assuming correctly
that all pc users that I contact must download this pack to read ? I send word
docs to the media - there is no way they are going to download a pack, when
they've never needed to before, just to be able to satisfy my requirements.
This is absurd.
If I uninstall Word 2008 and then reinstall my old Mac X, will I then be able
to send readable documents to others like I always used to?
I have to comment I am somewhat angry to have completely wasted $400, plus the
fact I have already lost business, as others cannot read my docs, which has
been unknown to me for the past 3 months !!!

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