Subject: Re: Word10 (Word for XP) file format
From: Caolan McNamara (caolan@csn.ul.ie)
Date: Wed Oct 17 2001 - 03:15:59 CDT
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:15:24AM -0700, Kevin Dwan wrote:
> I have heard that the internal format of Word for XP is different than that
> of Word 2000, something about how the pointer that used to indicate the
> location of 512 blocks of data in fast-saved files is different or
> apparently missing.
>
> If this is so, it has implications regarding filters, of course. Does
> anyone have more information on this? The MSDN site was.... unhelpful.
Interesting, we (openoffice) haven't had any problems with xp documents
so far. I haven't noticed any significant differences to date, have you
any concrete examples of files with this difference? Apart from some new
properties and some duplication of standard character properties with
bidi analogues we haven't had to do anything extra to support them.
C.
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