Open CS5 Documents in Earlier Versions (CS2, CS3, CS4)

I am currently working on some documents in CS5.
Others need to access these files but they are not on CS5.
Is there a way to save down the files from CS5 so they can use them in the earlier versions?
Or is there another way besides saving down that I can give them the files for their use?
Thanks for the help!

Yes there is. How many older versions do you have installed on your computer? (You need all of those you mentioned expect for the very oldest one.)
Just like most software that produces extremely complicated files, InDesign cannot 'save as' any old version. There simply is no way to 'convert' most new features into stuff that works with an older version of the program -- think of spanned columns, cross references, grep styles, footnotes, tables.
You can export your document to a format that can be opened with ONE (1 -- that's one, not two or three) previous version. All features that were new in your current version will silently disappear, and will not show up or be visibile or leave any remark or note in the document when opened in the older version.
Apart from that, there have been updates of other parts of the program, even though to the casual user they appear to work the same. One I know of is the Paragraph Composer -- this has been changed from CS3 to CS4, meaning that if you open and edit text from a CS3 document into CS4, it will be reformatted. In the other direction, the same will happen.
Given all this, are you absolutely sure you want to even try this? There is absolutely no guarantee exporting down to one older version will create a usable document. Saving down two, three or more versions is hopelessly optimistic for anything more complicated than a plain-text newsletter.

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