Backward and Forward Compatibility

I have a new laptop with Office 2003 Student Edition. I use Excel and Word
the most. I recently found the word merge portion of our Realtor MLS program
can not work with Word or Excel 2003. I have a prior version Office XP 2002
I can install. Will I be able to use all the Excel 2003 and Word 2003
documents if I uninstall 2003 and install Office XP 2002? I can't afford to
screw up 100's of Excel Spreadsheet work.

Thanks!
Cathy

Yes you can open files created in 2003 with xp/2002, I wander between 2003
and 97
without problems.

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom


"Cathy in Florida" <CathyinFlorida@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:62B611C9-FC17-4A57-9299-9E019B05BA4E@microsoft.com...
>I have a new laptop with Office 2003 Student Edition. I use Excel and Word
> the most. I recently found the word merge portion of our Realtor MLS
> program
> can not work with Word or Excel 2003. I have a prior version Office XP
> 2002
> I can install. Will I be able to use all the Excel 2003 and Word 2003
> documents if I uninstall 2003 and install Office XP 2002? I can't afford
> to
> screw up 100's of Excel Spreadsheet work.
>
> Thanks!
> Cathy

Thank you Peo Sjoblom.
I understand that "opening" them is not a problem, but will I be able to
work in Excel 2003 files using Excel 2002, make changes, recalculate, etc?

Cathy

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

> Yes you can open files created in 2003 with xp/2002, I wander between 2003
> and 97
> without problems.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peo Sjoblom
>
>
> "Cathy in Florida" <CathyinFlorida@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:62B611C9-FC17-4A57-9299-9E019B05BA4E@microsoft.com...
> >I have a new laptop with Office 2003 Student Edition. I use Excel and Word
> > the most. I recently found the word merge portion of our Realtor MLS
> > program
> > can not work with Word or Excel 2003. I have a prior version Office XP
> > 2002
> > I can install. Will I be able to use all the Excel 2003 and Word 2003
> > documents if I uninstall 2003 and install Office XP 2002? I can't afford
> > to
> > screw up 100's of Excel Spreadsheet work.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Cathy
>
>
>

I didnot mean opening them, I meant that I use all the different versions
from 97 to 2003 without any problems,
there are some differences using VBA and a few when it comes to formulas
like extended usability of the SUBTOTAL function
using formulas but fo the average user there is no problems

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom


"Cathy in Florida" <CathyinFlorida@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:542AE457-76A5-4BDD-98B9-B57B892E0CC2@microsoft.com...
> Thank you Peo Sjoblom.
> I understand that "opening" them is not a problem, but will I be able to
> work in Excel 2003 files using Excel 2002, make changes, recalculate, etc?
>
> Cathy
>
> "Peo Sjoblom" wrote:
>
> > Yes you can open files created in 2003 with xp/2002, I wander between
2003
> > and 97
> > without problems.
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peo Sjoblom
> >
> >
> > "Cathy in Florida" <CathyinFlorida@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message news:62B611C9-FC17-4A57-9299-9E019B05BA4E@microsoft.com...
> > >I have a new laptop with Office 2003 Student Edition. I use Excel and
Word
> > > the most. I recently found the word merge portion of our Realtor MLS
> > > program
> > > can not work with Word or Excel 2003. I have a prior version Office
XP
> > > 2002
> > > I can install. Will I be able to use all the Excel 2003 and Word 2003
> > > documents if I uninstall 2003 and install Office XP 2002? I can't
afford
> > > to
> > > screw up 100's of Excel Spreadsheet work.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Cathy
> >
> >
> >