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Are reports (or report templates) generated in Crystal Reports 9 able to be read and used in Crystal Reports 8.5?

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Are reports (or report templates) generated in Crystal Reports 9 able to be read and used in Crystal Reports 8.5?

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A. We have not started using Crystal Reports 9 yet so do not know the limitations. However, previous versions of Crystal reports had backwards compatibility. You would be limited by the inability to save new functionality in an older version. An example would be that in Crystal Reports 9 you can write formulas against text fields exceeding 255 characters but in Crystal Reports 8.5 you could not.