Originally Posted by
slim_slag
I don't expect Office 97 to read office 2003 files, why should it?
But it does (to at least a limited extent).
I just created a file on an XP box using Word 2003 and then opened it on a Win98 box using Word 97, and it worked fine.
Obviously it isn't going to handle features that didn't exist in 97, but what it does
not do is refuse to open the document because it doesn't recognise the file format.
(As I said earlier, I know that this doesn't work with Access. I haven't tried Excel or Powerpoint.)