Situation,

Group of 7 users, 4 running Windows 2000, Office 2000. 3 Running WinXP pro
with Office XP Pro. Problem occures when a user from the win2K group creats
and Excel documents and save sit on a shared drive. A user from the Win XP
group then opens this document and alters the save it overwriting the
orriginal. the Win2K user the attempts to open the document and an error
occurs. Excel.exe has coused an error and will be closed. The file now only
can be opened successfully on a XP machine. I thought that Office XP was
backwards compatable. I managed to rectify the problem by cahnaging the
default save format of office xp Excel to Microsoft 97/2000 -95/98 . Can
anyone explain why this is happening and is there is a way arround this
problem without having to go to each of ~300 machines and changing the
translation setting.

Regards

James