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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (996)	1/30/1998 2:50:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

TECHNICAL PC SOFTWARE: Windowing in different versions of MS Office products From: Dawna Clephas <dewc2833@roanoke.infi.net> Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000 Subject: re: Microsoft 'Fesses Up Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:18:44 -0500 Windowing in different versions of MS Office products: 'I had my sneaking suspicions about incompatibilities between and even within MS products (and other suite vendor's shrinkwrapped software, to be fair). Attended a Y2K conference last week and the speaker confirmed that the version of Excel used in '95 uses a different window from that used in Office '97; Microsoft decided in '97 to use the same window as some other vendors. So now there's a little error when you bring over your '95 data and mate it with '97 stuff... <snip> So here, I'll slap these in front of you and sow, perhaps needlessly, a few more seeds of despair: 1) Y2K solution compatibility between different versions of a vendor's product (e.g. above); 2) Compatibility using OLE across vendor products, such as between a Word table and Excel; 3) Compatibility converting data from one product into another, e.g. from Excel into an Access database 4) Compatibility across various vendors, e.g. converting Lotus 1-2-3 data to Excel Lots of room for trouble to brew. My client intends to test for those combinations we may encounter in regular business operations, and I'll report on the results. There will be lots more chunks we won't address due to irrelevance for our situation... beware! --Dawna '