Office imcaptibilities between 97, 2001 and XP

[SystemDown]

Currently in house, we use office 2000 with some legacy 97 office suites, we are going to start to bring in some Office XP suites, does anybody know of any issues running all thee versions on the same network?
Thanks,

 

[Hasit]

There should not be any problem, as long as some simple rules are observed. We have done something similar in my organisation, as we have merged with another company.

The other company ran a higher version of Office than we did, and we were running two versions (in the process of migrating all users to a single version) when the merger happend.

But, all users got the service they needed and we had very few (minor) problems.

Have a look at:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q290/5/76.ASP

for more information.

 

[SystemDown]

The artice you supplied the link to refers to running multiple versions of Office on the same workstation. I'm more concerned about running different versions among users, some run 97, others 2000 and new clients XP. I mostly concerned about imcompatibilities between office suite versions. I know Access 2000 and 97 are not backward compatible I was wondering whether more of these backward compatiblity issues existed between other Office apps between the three versions.

 

[Hasit]

Aha. Well, in the experience I stated, we had a similar environment where 3 different versions were being used on the network, and apart from Access and some other minor issues (some macros didn't work too well in Excel - but these are highlighted and known problems - see the Microsoft Knowledgebase), there was no major problems at all.