Guest Shelley Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 If I'm working in Microsoft Word in Windows XP and I save my work on a flash drive and open on my computer at home which has Vista installed on it, will my document open? Shelley
Guest Dee Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: Windows XP and Vista Question As long as you have Word installed in Vista as well. Should work. Take Care... dee Shelley wrote: > If I'm working in Microsoft Word in Windows XP and I save my work on a flash > drive and open on my computer at home which has Vista installed on it, will > my document open? Shelley
Guest Tom Porterfield Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: Windows XP and Vista Question Shelley wrote: > If I'm working in Microsoft Word in Windows XP and I save my work on a flash > drive and open on my computer at home which has Vista installed on it, will > my document open? Shelley As long as the home computer also has Microsoft Word installed, yes. -- Tom Porterfield
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: Windows XP and Vista Question On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:24:03 -0700, Shelley <Shelley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > If I'm working in Microsoft Word in Windows XP and I save my work on a flash > drive and open on my computer at home which has Vista installed on it, will > my document open? This has nothing to do with Windows XP vs. Windows Vista. It's only a matter of the Word application. First you have to have Microsoft Word on both machines. Second, you have to have a compatible version of Microsoft Word installed on both machines, but that's highly unlikely to be an issue going from an XP machine to a Vista one. And third (also highly unlikely) there is one other potential incomparability to be aware of. If your XP machine has Word 2007 and you save the file in the new default docx format, and your Vista version is an older one, it won't open the docx file unless you're installed the additional code to let older versions read docx files. I mention points 2 and 3 just to be complete. In all probability, as long as you have Word on your Vista machine, you should be all right. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: Windows XP and Vista Question "Shelley" <Shelley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ECF89F58-4C6F-4564-9EB9-6F39C5C99E8C@microsoft.com... > If I'm working in Microsoft Word in Windows XP and I save my work on a > flash > drive and open on my computer at home which has Vista installed on it, > will > my document open? Shelley This actually doesn't have anything to do with XP or Vista. It has to do with a word processor that understands the file format being installed. In your case, this is likely MS Word, but other word processing applications can also read that file format, including Sun StarOffice and often WordPad. HTH -pk
Guest Bruce Chambers Posted September 11, 2007 Posted September 11, 2007 Re: Windows XP and Vista Question Shelley wrote: > If I'm working in Microsoft Word in Windows XP and I save my work on a flash > drive and open on my computer at home which has Vista installed on it, will > my document open? Shelley If you also have a compatible version of Word installed on the home computer, yes. The operating systems are immaterial to this question. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell
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