I think the problem is worse than that. I've taken Word 97 files and tried to load them into Office 2007 only to have the document formatting be completely mes

I think the problem is worse than that. I've taken Word 97 files and tried to load them into Office 2007 only to have the document formatting be completely messed up. I mean, I've come to expect that when loading a Word file into OpenOffice, but to have it fail from one version of Word to another is pathetic.