Dear Loungers — I am about to add to our venerable home computer, still running Windows 95 and Office 97, a new machine running Windows XP and Office XP. I face some seemingly simple questions to which I don’t seem to have seen direct answers yet in the press or the various Woodygrams.
(1) Is Word XP file-compatible with Word 97? What kind of problems will I run into if, say, my kids start their homework on the XP machine and try to finish it on the 97?
(2) Will my extensive set of Word 97 (VBA) macros convert readily into Word XP? If not, is there a way to translate them?
(3) If the answers to (1) and (2) are unfavorable, what would happen if (for compatibility’s sake) I tried installing Word 97 along with Word XP on the new machine? Granted that it would be a highly inelegant solution, would it work?
Thanks!
Rick Ellrod
