Many organizations upgrade gradually to new applications.
During the transition, users often need to exchange files among old and new versions of an application. To make the upgrade process go smoothly, the Microsoft Office Converter Pack provides tools that allow Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint users to share files with previous versions of Office and other applications. The Office Converter Pack includes the 97-2000 and HTML converters, which are of particular interest to users of previous Office versions. Word 2000 and PowerPoint 2000 users can open documents and presentations saved in previous versions of Word and PowerPoint by using the converters installed during Office 2000 Setup. When Office 2000 users save documents, workbooks, and presentations in Web Page format, the files are converted to HTML format.