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In article <0001HW.D2058D4D00179C10B01029BF@news.astraweb.com>, Nelson
<nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 03:32:12 -0400, Your Name wrote
> (in article <280820151932122558%YourName@YourISP.com>):
> > In article <0001HW.D20583A400155863B01029BF@news.astraweb.com>, Nelson
> > <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:17:42 -0400, Your Name wrote
> >> (in article <280820151617427444%YourName@YourISP.com>):
> >>> 
> >>> any newer version of Word can open the old documents from PowerPC
> >>> version of Word
> >> 
> >> I seem to recall I had a Word 3 document that Word 14.1 said was too 
> >> old to open.  Opened it with BBEdit and extracted the text.
> > 
> > But is Word 3 a "PowerPC version of Word" (I'm using Word 9 on a
> > PowerPC Mac). 
> > 
> > There are issues with documents from really old versions of Word, but I
> > can't recall if there is (was) a free converter available from
> > Microsoft to deal with that.
> 
> I would guess it is more an issue of the internal formatting of the 
> files in different versions of Word than the type of processor. At some 
> point they figured it was no longer worth the effort to maintain the 
> code to convert really old files.  I have run into the same thing with 
> FileMaker.  But I can read a paper document from 2000 years ago :)

Many long-running applications have done this, including Word,
FileMaker Pro, PageMaker, InDesign, StuffIt, etc. In some cases it's
necessary for new features, but in other cases it's simply a case of
trying to force users to upgrade to remain compatible with everyone
else.

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