Hi. I know that this is probably an OLD question,, BUT: I have Word
6.0.1..... That's it!!! nothing else. All I want to do is upgrade that
for Mac OS10.x.x.x capable, without buying all of the other krap!!! Is
it possible? Thankz, Jay.

Hi Jay:

Phillip is correct, provided you accept that if you upgrade only Word, many
other things you will find in a Word document from a modern version of word
will not work.

Microsoft Office is a very interconnected set of applications: you will get
a bit frustrated with various things "not working" or "not displaying" or
"not possible".

Microsoft Office X should be available at a deep discount soon: I would
recommend you buy the whole thing. You do not have to "use" the other bits,
but things won't work properly if they're not there :-)

The problem you have is that the Word Document file format changed between
Word 6 and Word 98. The old version won;t read the latest format. The
special converter (which is actually a program) available on the PC to get
around this is not available on the Mac.

Cheers

This responds to microsoft.public.mac.office.word on 12 Jul 2003 00:02:09
-0700, jdonenfeld[at]aol.com (jdonenfeld):

> Hi. I know that this is probably an OLD question,, BUT: I have Word
> 6.0.1..... That's it!!! nothing else. All I want to do is upgrade that
> for Mac OS10.x.x.x capable, without buying all of the other krap!!! Is
> it possible? Thankz, Jay.

Please post all comments to the newsgroup to maintain the thread.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john[at]mcghie-information.com.au

But if you buy and install Office2001 on OS 9 it will convert all your
6.0.1. Files.

I know that is additional expense. But should work around OfficeX's not
being able to read 6.0.1 files.

"John McGhie [MVP - Word]" wrote:
>
> Hi Jay:
>
> Phillip is correct, provided you accept that if you upgrade only Word, many
> other things you will find in a Word document from a modern version of word
> will not work.
>
> Microsoft Office is a very interconnected set of applications: you will get
> a bit frustrated with various things "not working" or "not displaying" or
> "not possible".
>
> Microsoft Office X should be available at a deep discount soon: I would
> recommend you buy the whole thing. You do not have to "use" the other bits,
> but things won't work properly if they're not there :-)
>
> The problem you have is that the Word Document file format changed between
> Word 6 and Word 98. The old version won;t read the latest format. The
> special converter (which is actually a program) available on the PC to get
> around this is not available on the Mac.
>
> Cheers
>
> This responds to microsoft.public.mac.office.word on 12 Jul 2003 00:02:09
> -0700, jdonenfeld[at]aol.com (jdonenfeld):
>
> > Hi. I know that this is probably an OLD question,, BUT: I have Word
> > 6.0.1..... That's it!!! nothing else. All I want to do is upgrade that
> > for Mac OS10.x.x.x capable, without buying all of the other krap!!! Is
> > it possible? Thankz, Jay.
>
> Please post all comments to the newsgroup to maintain the thread.
>
> John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
> McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
> Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
> +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john[at]mcghie-information.com.au

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