Originally Posted by
cblaisd
And they've managed to keep the same file structure since WP 3 for DOS.
Huh? The file structure definitely changed between WP4.2, 5.1 and WP6.0 for DOS[*]; you could open older versions in newer. I used WP7 and 8 a bit as I had to support them at a job, but don't have any old documents to remember what the file format was like.
I also have a copy of WP6.0 for Dos installed in my games directory (runs under Dosbox) as I discovered a few old password protected documents from when I was in high school that I wanted to open (amazingly, I still remembered the password. Unamazingly, once I looked over them stuff I considered super-personal in high school was ridiculously dumb.)[**]
[* I have enough old WP documents around that I loaded the old Office Converter pack onto Office 2k7, and it has separate converters for 5 and 6. It can't read WP4 documents. ]
[** I also just realized that I should check if it could read my old AmiPro documents - it can, so AmiPro -> WP6 -> Word gives me a way to get at some old documents that were otherwise unavailable. ]