Re: Mac Office 2004 vs Office 2007

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Hi Charles:

No reason for concern at all. I flip between the versions here with no problems or issues.

There is, currently, a source of "irritation". The Converters for Mac Office have not appeared yet (the PC ones have, but not the Mac ones). Microsoft had hoped to have them available by now: obviously they're running late in development.

The "Converters" are much more substantial than last time: they offer full read-write compatibility between Office X, 2004 and 2007/8. Which means they're four times the size! Obviously in a large and complex development project such as this (those "converters" contain most of the "engine" of the actual applications concerned) you sometimes do get delays and bugs that take time to resolve.

I would expect the converters to appear within "weeks, not months".

Until they do, you will have to ask Office 2007 users to save back a version for you. When they do that, some things, such as the new graphics in Office 2007 documents, will be converted into static uneditable pictures. So don't back-convert unless you have to.

Cheers

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer,
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"Charles J. Rice" <cjrice@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C241A37C.1BB2E%cjrice@xxxxxxxxxx
Forgive me if this has already been covered, but I am concerned that the
files generated using the new Office 2007 for PCs will not be compatible
with previous versions of Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and especially
will not be compatible with Mac Office 2004 files.

Any real reason for concern?

Charles


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