Wednesday, Mar 28, 2007 at 15:54
Word not talking to XP isn't correct. You probably have the new Office 2007 (Word, Excel, etc) version and are trying to send it to someone with Office 2003 (or earlier). Vista and XP are irrelevant in this context.
When you save the file in Word 2007, click the big button in the top left of the screen and use "Save As" and you can then choose to save it in the earlier formats (eg Word 2003).
The Office 2007 uses a new format to save it in (XML -
well XML is not new, but the format for Office is) and Office 2003 uses a properietary Microsoft format.
Hope this helps.
One of the issues with upgrading to Vista from an earlier version of windows (as compared to upgrading to XP from an earlier one before which was relatively simple) is that Microsoft have made a lot of changes to the operating system under the hood. Sure, it looks all nice and pretty, but there are a lot of security features and areas that programmers didn't have to worry (or consider) for the past 10 years and are now being forced to adopt something new - something which breaks previous code.
This causes a lot of maintenance and when you are working with a Beta version, can not always be sure that Microsoft won't go and change something further on you. Not only that, but it also cost a lot of time and money for most of the software companies out there to know what will not work and fix it (not easy!), test it, trial it, etc. Programmers can't expect to just know this stuff, they have to learn it and it takes time.
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