On Friday, Jun 25, 2004, at 19:37 Canada/Eastern, Poyom Riles wrote: > [...] For some reason the .doc files that I create in Office X are > unreadable by Office XP users. What does "unreadable" mean? They copy filename.doc to their machine, double-click on it, and Word doesn't launch? It launches but says "unknown file format"? It launches, loads the file, but it appears to contain only garbage? etc. > I have been using .rtf files. RTF is a fairly basic exchange format. If RTF is enough, then you've wasted your money on Word, because it doesn't preserve even some basic word processing features, such as styles. <0x0192>