Word 2000 templates work in 2003?

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ZiMM

I have a general question about office 2000 and 2003, more specific i
the Word product.

My office uses several different templates (which have set form field
and in protection for ease of navigation) which work in Office 2000.
We are planning on upgrading a few of the computers to MS Office 2003.

First question is, does anyone know if there would be any conflicts o
will anything need to be changed for the templates to work in Wor
2003? There are some macros, but a search of microsoft.com's suppor
site yielded answers to that issue. They are not a problem.

Secondly, a few of the computers will stay with Office 2000. Ha
anyone attempted or know if there would be conflicts if the sam
templates are opened in Word 2000? Basically the same file will b
opened using both versions until all computers are updated.

Thanks for any information you can give me. I've search microsoft.co
and this site for keywords of 'office 2000 to office 2003' whic
yielded quite a bit of results and I couldn't find any thing hittin
this issue. There were a few problems, but nothing that I woul
consider major.

Thanks,

ZiM
 
Hi,

The templates should work fine. Do your template development, though, in
Word 2000. Note that the forms development interface is slightly different
in Word 2003, but that should not change how the forms work in use.

For more about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles.

As Dayo Mitchell puts it:
Please note that WordForums.com is a very inefficient way to access these
newsgroups. It is not an independent, self-sufficient website, but simply
piggybacks onto public, international newsgroups. It mirrors the Microsoft
public news server, and mirrors it slowly at that. Your questions show up on
the server hours after you post them, and it seems the answers show up back
at the site late. The majority of the people who may respond to your
question are not using the site.

See here for some suggestions on other ways to access the newsgroups,
including how to find the best VBA group for you.
http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/index.htm

Hope this helps,
 
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