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Subject:Re: going from Word 6 to Word 7 From:"Robin M. Allen" <rmallen -at- TEXAS -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:54:08 -0600
Paul Carr wrote:
>
> At work we have Word 6, and a colleague has tried to taking files home on
> a disk on opening them on her PC with Win 95 and Word 7. She does take
> the appropriate templates with her, but she gets a variety of error
> messages nonetheless.
>
> I seem to recall a thread here about a converter to be obtained on the
> net. Is this the case?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Paul Carr
>
> sorcha -at- bbs -dot- macnexus -dot- org
FWIW, I addressed this same question with Microsoft support and they
responded that there is *no difference* between version 6 and version 7.
They are "completely compatible."
