[AccessD] compatability between Windows XP and older versions of office pro ducts.

You might want to check through back issues of woodyswatch for MS Word 
issues, there are some oddities. Many were patched with Office SP1 SP2 
and SP3. So it depends on what you install.
http://www.woodyswatch.com

There is the Outlook 2000 email attachment security problem if you use 
this to transfer data via attachments. This was switched around in 
various Office SP's.

 And WinXP SP1 uses AES encryption rather than the older DESX alogrithm, 
opening these files on an older OS that uses DESX might be fatal to the 
files. I don't know many people that use this.
see MSKB 329741
 
Win XP  comes with MDAC 2.7 installed, so you might want to upgrade 
Access Jet to SP-6
If you have a reference to ADO in Access to say MDAC 2.5 or 2.1, you may 
have reference failures.

Klos, Susan wrote:

> We are in the process of purchasing new computers at the office.  The 
> Department policy is new machines are installed with WindowsXP.  Some 
> folks have heard that Office 2000 running on WindowsXP has issues with 
> opening documents which were created with Office 97 running on Windows 
> 95.  Anyone know anything about this problem?  Also, regarding 
> backwards compatability.  Is there a problem with any of the products 
> except Access with that?