Yes you can open MS Office 2000 documents with OpenOffice and it's cousins LibreOffice (my favorite just now) ApacheOffice (havn't tried it yet but might soon). You can save OpenOffice documents in MS Office 2000 formats too.
Absolutely - I have both programs on my computer and Open Office will happily open MS Works files.
Yes, Ms office 2003 is backward compatible with MS Office 2000. But if you are an advance user who programs in MS Office 2003. than there is certain part of code written in Ms office 2003 does not work in 2000. That's very minimal.
openoffice.org is a great free alternative to ms office. it is completely compatible withe everything but ms publisher
MS Access 2003 is able to produce MS Access 2000 compatible databases.
Sure. Even MS Office XP and MS Office 2003.
1. In win 7 control panel; open programs and features: delete ms office trial. 2. Right click on any saved ms 2000 word, or 'works' file. Open properties at bottom. 3. If ms word is not shown; click on browse. 4. Open c: then click on program files (x86) 5. Click on Microsoft office 6. Click on office 7. Click on winword logo 8. Click ok to save. Now ms office 2000 files will work, save, and open all of your ms 'word' 2000 files.
You mean run them at the same time? Sure, why not. I haven't used either in a while, but you can open files created in either suite with the other one, but you usually have to save the MS Office file using an older file format that Open Office can understand. I've done it before flawlessly. The only thing I've noticed is that the formatting might look slightly different in Open Office, but goes back to normal in MS Office. By now, the latest MS Office should be backwards compatible with Open Office, but read the documentation. Better yet, when you save a file in MS Office, save it as you would a normal file. Then save-as and choose the older file format, e.g. MS Office 2007. Open both up in Open Office, and see if you get a prompt. If they both open up fine, you're good to go. I don't think there are really any problems with Open Office files opening in MS Office. The open-source community is really good at making sure Open Office files can be read using MS.
Yes they are
All above are known for MS Office tools like MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook and many more.
Yes, You can use MS Office 2013 to read and save MS office 2000 files. You can use the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack to allow backward compatibility, so that previous versions of Office can open and save files in the new file format.
Not sure about the nature of the reports: # A report as a text document that is created using OpenOffice.org Writer can be saved in various MS Office formats and therefore be read by MS Word. # A report that is a form of an OpenOffice.org Base database? I'm not sure if that can be saved in an MS Access compatible format.
MS Office is a suite of programs. MS Word is an individual program contained within the suite of MS Office !