Re: Moving a hard drive to a USB device

AndrewB wrote:
> Twayne wrote:
> 
>>
>> No.  Again, it's the same situation as the above.  Word for Windows 
>> can only read files created in Word, and Word for the MAC can only 
>> read files created on the Mac in Word.  So again, you'll need to do 
>> some converting of the files or use software to accomplish it.  Again,

>> I can not help with that but I'm sure others can.
> 
> 
> That's not true.  :)
> 
> I do this EVERY DAY at the office.  About 5% of us have MacBook Pros, 
> while the other 95% have HP laptops with Windows XP (a 16,000 person 
> company).  We interchange Microsoft Office documents ALL THE TIME 
> without problems: Word, Powerpoint, and Excel.
> 
> I'm using Microsoft Office for the Mac 2003 or 2004.  The IT group 
> hasn't blessed the latest Mac Office which came out within the last few 
> months.
> 
> 
> AndrewB

Thanks for clearing that up - always used to be the case that MS-Office 
apps files between the two were compatible (going back a ways) and it 
would have been disappointing/crazy for them to have dropped the support 
for the "mixed office" - I would think there are still quite a few of

those.  Only (minor) problems encountered were short-term mis-matches 
between respective releases (and there were no "viewers" back then -
say