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Old April 30th, 2004, 07:47 PM
David Parker
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Default Opening old Visio files...

The Visio Viewer supports version 5, 2000, 2002, 2003.

Visio 2000 only supports 5 and later.

From memory, Visio 5 opens Visio 4, 4.1 & 4.5 ( we are back to 1995 now)

So, unless your source can save them into another file format, you will have
to find a copy of Visio 5 probably to open your file, then save it so you
can use the Viewer.
We have had to do this for a client recently. If you only have the one
file, and it's not sensitive, then send to , and we'll
try to open it for you.

"Chris Armstrong" wrote in message
...
Hello,

Someone sent me a Visio file that was created with a very
old pre-Microsoft version of Visio. Is there any way to
open it in the current Visio viewer or are there any
conversion utilities for this situation? (I don't have a
full version of Visio, just the viewer.) I don't know if
this is a coherent question. I had never heard of Visio
before receiving this file and don't know much about it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris