Chairman's Award - use Word 2000

[KathieK]

FIRST has answered my question about which version of Word to use in your Chairman's Award submissions:

Section: 8.2.3.2 Status: Answered Date Answered: 1/26/2004
Q: Does it matter what version of Microsoft Word is used in the Chairman's Award submission?

A: Please use MS WORD 2000. Please DO NOT use 2003 as many judges may not have that version on their computers.

[Denman]

Word 2000 is the most used anyways, i have word xp at home and it has the availability to save as win2000 compatible files so it doesn't really matter what version-
Older versions work fine
Newer ones have been made to be Compatible

[KathieK]

I have just discovered that although our graphics file sizes are small, my Word 2003 document, when converted to an earlier version, became HUGE. Almost 4MB!
From Microsoft: Graphics are converted to WMF (Windows Metafile) or PICT (Macintosh) format, which does not support graphics compression. This increases the file size of documents that contain graphics.

I am now in search of an older computer with Word 2000 on it so I can re-do the whole document...

I hope this issue gets resolved next year.