M$ Office 2007 ??s

[RNKIII]

The wife sent home a "end of school year" email from the IT Dept. for the district.
They will be 'migrating' all the districts computers to M$ Office 2007.

"OUR"    concern / question is this;
She does a LOT of work at home in the evenings and on weekends (highly paid) on her G4 iBook (10.3.9 - M$ Office 2004) that she then sends to herself at school as attachments.  And vice versa, sending things she needs to work on, from school to herself at home...   Got it??

The concern is that things coming from school or going to school, will not be recognized at the 'receving end' due to file incompatibilities.

Would appreciate any and all comments, suggestions, experiences, etc., etc....  


TIA

Bob K.   rnkiii

[Shades of Gray]

Howdy. You can check out this Win-Mac Converter for Office 2007 that the Mac BU at MS is working on.

Also, there are several 3rd party converters that are already available.

The biggest issue is whether there is any VBA code involved. Right now she has Office 2004, so not insurmountable, although specific limitations on the Mac side. But if she upgrades to Office 2008, it will have no VBA support.

[Shades of Gray]

Here is one of those 3rd party conveters: Panergy docx Converter, $20.

[RNKIII]

 For the reply(ies) and the links.
Will have to check them out as to what will work best.

Thank you, again..

Bob K.   rnkiii

[Shades of Gray]

BTW, I taught school near Owatonna, 36 years ago (West Concord High School - Math and Physics). Of course, with consolidation, it is no longer a High School.

[Xairbusdriver]

What parts of Office does she need to use?

Text should be usable if saved/sent/read as RTF, no matter what word processor creates it.

Excel could be somewhat harder, I would think, but there may not have been much change in that, anyway. And there are Mac equivalents for spreadsheet reading/writing/converting.

Access ( is that a part of Office? ) could be another big hurdle. But databases of whatever version can export info as delimited text which can then be imported into any other database program ( even the same brand but different versions ).

The real test, of course, will be going from the new version to the old. But the new version ( even in an MS product ) should be able to read older versions, at least ones that are not too distant in age.

[Shades of Gray]

NeoOffice already has the converters in it, as well as some VBA.