Libre Word saved to MSWord 1997-2003

Hi this always reopens as expected, but if I save to any later version it reopens as goobildygook an thereby useless? IAm doing something wrong is this a MS spoiler terchnique?

Could you please rephrase this to make it comprehensible? “Hi this always reopens as expected” - what’t this? “but if I save to any later version it reopens as goobildygook an thereby useless?” - which versions you are talking about, and what is “it”, and why are you using “?” - aren’t you sure about something? And do you need to save to 1997-2003 .DOC, or to a later version? And doesn’t ODT work for you? And what is that “Libre Word”???