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Office 2003 Support - Status by Rainier Product
(all products were previously certified for use with all versions of Office from Office 95 to Office XP/2002)
We
have now tested all products with the commercial release of Office 2003
(released Oct 24th 2003) and have made all enhancements necessary for
compatibility. The Office 2003 certified versions of each product are as shown
below.
Updated: 14th October 2003
The information below relates to earlier
Office versions and is retained for historical interest only Office 2000 and XP
Office 2000 was released in June 1999 and Office XP was released in June 2001.
Office XP includes Word 2002, Excel 2002 and Access 2002. All Rainier products are certified to work with Office 2000 and Office XP
as well as Office 95
and Office 97. See below for additional information about these versions. Office 2000 and XP Differences from earlier
versions
Excel 2000 and Word 2000 have both been found
to behave differently to earlier versions in a variety of situations. Applications
that have been built to integrate with earlier versions of Office (whether or not
you are using Rainier components or programming in native VBA) may fail when run with
Office 2000 or XP and we have received reports of this happening at various
installations. Existing users
of ExcelFun and WordFun upgrading from Office 97 or earlier to Office 2000
or XP will
simply have to deploy the new updated DLLs and their applications will work with
both the old and new versions of the Office programs. There is no need to
revisit your code or re-compile or re-link your applications. One apparent difference
introduced in Word 2000 and in Excel 2002 is that when you open new documents repeatedly (either through OLE
automation or directly from within Word or Excel) you appear to get new instances of Word
or Excel each
time. In fact this is just an interface change and the 'separate' windows
are actually all controlled by the same instance of Word or Excel. Excel and Word
workbooks and documents use the same file format in 2000 and XP as in their Office 97 versions so
there is no need to update any templates used. Existing versions of MailFun
work with Outlook 2000 and 2002. No corrective changes were required for this product. Access 2000 file format
changed from Access 97. What's more Microsoft did not released any compatibility libraries as
they did with Office 95 and 97. Although the format changed again with Access
2002, the new version will work quite happily with the older MDB file
format. Exposer
v4 databases are in Access 2.0 format (the version before Access 95). These will
still work after you have installed Access 2000 or 2002 unless you explicitly
convert them to the newer format in which case they will not. If you convert
them to Access 95 or Access 97 they will continue to work. You might do such a
conversion if you wanted to create and test a custom query in Access. The simple
workaround is to convert the database to the new version but retain the old one
for use with Exposer. Create and test the query with Access 2000 or 2002 and then
paste the SQL into your custom query database. Exposer
v6 and BizReporter databases are in Access 97 format (the version before Access
95. These will
still work if you have installed Access 2000 or 2002.
Product
Status
BizReporter
Certified
as of version 1.4
BulkUpdate
[Imposer]
Certified
as of version 6.5.1
ExcelController
Certified
as of version 5.0
ExcelFun
Certified
as of version 2.0.3
Exposer
- see ModelReporter
Certified
as of version 6.5.11
Imposer
- see BulkUpdate
Certified
as of version 6.5.1
MailFun
Certified as of version 1.1.7
ModelReporter
[Exposer]
Certified as of version 6.5.11
WinController
No impact
- product does not interact with Office.
WinFun
No impact
- product does not interact with Office.
WordController
Certified
as of version 5.0
WordFun
Certified
as of version 2.0.7
uomConvert
No impact
- product does not interact with Office.
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