Office 2000 to 2003

[bearhuglov]

Hello Folks,

I have a compatibility question on Word programme from Office 2000 and Word from Office 2003. I have two laptop computers with Windows XP pro SP2. One has Microsoft Office 2000 and the other one has 2003. The one with Office 2000 has several word documents with a lot of formatting ( if I may use that term ) such as columns, boxes, fonts etc. I copied those documents and transferred them to the laptop that has Office 2003. However, that version of word programme doesn't open these word documents ( created in word 2000 ). I went to help section, followed all sorts of conversions tools, but the documents always opened with little boxy characters. I have attached the screenshots of the same.

My questions to you all are these. What am I doing wrong here? Is it possible to convert word documents ( with a lot of formatting in them ) from Office 2000 to Office 2003? Like I said, I went through the whole gamut of conversion tools but didn't do any good. Any help, suggestions, insights or philosophies are appreciated. Thanks.

Bear

[ricallen]

Have you tried using the Open and Repair feature? As we just recently converted, we are finding that we have to do this with a large number of our documents.

[prakash_dool]

Probly....Font problem

I got the same prob. i donno how to convert 2003 word files to 2000 word...do u have any idea..

P_D

[spacesurfer]

I believe it's not a conversion problem. I have created complex documents using Word 2003 and have opened them in Word 97. The only thing is that some objects will appear in Word 97 as uneditable objects if Word 97 does not have a component that created that object in 2003.

Moreover, since you are opening a 2000 document with 2003, it should work without a problem since you're going forward, not backward, since 2003 has backward compatibility.

Try opening the file in Word 2000 (or whatever version you use), copy everything to a new document. Do not do "Select All" to copy. Rather, copy piece by piece (like paragraph by paragraph or table by table). Save the new file with a different filename, then open it in Word 2003.

If that doesn't work, try saving it as an html document from 2000, then open it in 2003 and turn it back to a 2003 document. This will take a lot of formatting but it's probably the only way.

[spacesurfer]

I believe it's not a conversion problem. I have created complex documents using Word 2003 and have opened them in Word 97. The only thing is that some objects will appear in Word 97 as uneditable objects if Word 97 does not have a component that created that object in 2003.

Moreover, since you are opening a 2000 document with 2003, it should work without a problem since you're going forward, not backward, since 2003 has backward compatibility.

Try opening the file in Word 2000 (or whatever version you use), copy everything to a new document. Do not do "Select All" to copy. Rather, copy piece by piece (like paragraph by paragraph or table by table). Save the new file with a different filename, then open it in Word 2003.

If that doesn't work, try saving it as an html document from 2000, then open it in 2003 and turn it back to a 2003 document. This will take a lot of formatting but it's probably the only way.

[spacesurfer]

I believe it's not a conversion problem. I have created complex documents using Word 2003 and have opened them in Word 97. The only thing is that some objects will appear in Word 97 as uneditable objects if Word 97 does not have a component that created that object in 2003.

Moreover, since you are opening a 2000 document with 2003, it should work without a problem since you're going forward, not backward, since 2003 has backward compatibility.

Try opening the file in Word 2000 (or whatever version you use), copy everything to a new document. Do not do "Select All" to copy. Rather, copy piece by piece (like paragraph by paragraph or table by table). Save the new file with a different filename, then open it in Word 2003.

If that doesn't work, try saving it as an html document from 2000, then open it in 2003 and turn it back to a 2003 document. This will take a lot of formatting but it's probably the only way.

**I didn't mean to double-post. The screen got stuck and I clicked twice. Sorry

Edited February 2, 2007 by spacesurfer