[AdA$tra]

Only if you upgrade operating systems in sync. Try reading Office XP documents under Office 2000....

97, 2000 and XP documents are all interoperable. I have had some large Excel 97 spreadsheets take a few extra seconds to open or save in Excel XP, but that is the worst of it for me. Office 95 requires a converter. If you install all the converters, you can read Word Perfect, Word Pro, 1-2-3 and most anything else with MS Office XP.

[chilepepper]

We've been having some problems with crashes in trying to interchange excel files between the two... the net seems to indicate there may be some subtle macro incompatabilities -- any service packs that take care of these?