Will Indesign CS3 read CS4 files?

If I install CS4 on my Intel based laptop and produce files on that computer in Indesign, can I move them to my older desktop that has CS3 installed and be able to open the files?

>If I install CS4 on my Intel based laptop and produce files on that computer in Indesign, can I move them to my older desktop that has CS3 installed and be able to open the files?
If you have CS3 then you should already know the answer to this. No version of InDesign has ever been able to open InDesign files from a later version. Starting with CS2 you could export an INX file which could be opened by the previous version. Text might reflow and any features not in the older version would not be available in the converted file. It is not a good way to work, switching back and forth between two versions with the same document.

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