How do I upgrade Microsoft Office 97 to the common Office 2000? The office 97 files I send are not compatable with the latest version I heard, so how could I upgrade for free? will windows 98 take the new office files??

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|will windows 98 take the new office files??
| s.jester

A file is a file.

The rest of your questions are off-topic.

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You said, "so how could I upgrade for free?"

Right above this entry box it said, "3. Messages relating to software piracy are not permitted..." Unless I mistake your meaning, that's what you're saying.

You can upgrade for free by asking a friend or relative who replaced Microsoft Office 2000 to give you his old copy. Otherwise:

• eBay -- $67
• Shopzilla -- $87 to $199

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I've never heard of Common Office 2000.

I use Microsoft Office 2000 Pro. When I had Microsoft Office 97 I could convert all 
my files over to 2000.

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|Yes, there are incompatibilities in the .DOC files
|when handled by different versions of Word.
|And they can corrupt the files and make them unreadable.
| dhm

What has come to be known as **a Microsoft "standard"**.  8-(


|For that, Gewg directed me to articles that showed that
|Open Office's Writer can read even damaged .DOC files.[...]
|So even if you are committed to M$ft
|it would be wise to have Open Office as well,
|even if you just use it as a utility to straighten out a M$ft incompatibility.

Given that "M$Office-compliant" is so poorly defined, after this development
cache 
of http://www.linux.com/print.pl?sid=06/11/08/1726205
+Visual-Basic-for-Applications
it's hard to imagine the set of circumstances
where someone would give Micros~1 money for an office suite
instead of getting a gratis 
and libre equivalent.


|It's a 100[MB] download but it's an incredibly impressive example...

Amen.

|...of freeware:

More than "freeware", as that term is commonly defined; it's "Free Software".
See "gratis and libre" (above).

|Download Open Office 2.20

Yup.

...and if you're bandwidth-challenged (or prefer to get your software on a disk),
there are places that will fill that need:
cache 
of http://www.8daysaweek.co.uk/OOo/itemdetails.htm
cache 
of http://www.theopencd.org/

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"it's hard to imagine the set of circumstances where someone would give Micros~1 money for an office suite instead of getting a gratis and libre equivalent."

Actually it's easy to imagine. You may have to get on the same page as a group of others. You want to keep getting more and more practice at home with the stuff that people do at work. That is how I interpret S. Jester's clause, "to the common Office 2000". By "common" I think he means "widely used". Indeed that seems to be his only reason since he was satisfied with M$ft Office 97 till now.

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|Yes, there are incompatibilities in the .DOC files
|when handled by different versions of Word.
|And they can corrupt the files and make them unreadable.
|For that, Gewg directed me to articles that showed that
|Open Office's Writer can read even damaged .DOC files.
| dhm

In the same vein (AutoCAD *.DWG files), this tickled me:
The Usenet Archive -- sci.electronics.design (MooseFET)

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