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From: Natelle on 19 Mar 2010 18:15 Using both Word 2003 and Word 2007 on Windows XP OS Okay, I've been dealing with this problem for awhile now. but it causes a lot of extra work. Half our staff use Word 2003 (home workers) and the other half have upgraded to Word 2007. I use both Word 2003 (telecommuting) and Word 2007 (office) and I do the finalizing of these files here. We share large-document files among us, so we save the files as Word 97-2003 so everyone can access. This results in numbering getting completely out of whack after you save it and reopne. Also the heading formatting is lost sometimes (bold is changed to not-bold). Note that these same exact problems occur when you have the Word 2007 converter installed for Word 2003. Also styles sometimes just change on me spontaneously (as if "automatic update" was checked on the style, though it is not). How have you been dealing with this? Any fresh ideas? I have been just not using numbering in some books, but for books where I HAVE to use both heading numbering and list numbering, I am just saving the FINAL document file as Word 2007, correcting all the numbering problems at that time. This means we all have to tolerate flakey numbering as we pass the document around AND a huge amount of work for me at the end trying to correct all the problems when the file is very large. And the numbering gets REALLY out of whack. Any knowledge about this? I find NOTHING in the KnowledgeBase. Thanks much, Natelle
From: Peter T. Daniels on 19 Mar 2010 23:37
Are you using Track Changes involving numbered items? Does everyone have the same default printer driver? On Mar 19, 6:15 pm, Natelle <Nate...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Using both Word 2003 and Word 2007 on Windows XP OS > > Okay, I've been dealing with this problem for awhile now. but it causes a > lot of extra work. Half our staff use Word 2003 (home workers) and the other > half have upgraded to Word 2007. I use both Word 2003 (telecommuting) and > Word 2007 (office) and I do the finalizing of these files here. We share > large-document files among us, so we save the files as Word 97-2003 so > everyone can access. This results in numbering getting completely out of > whack after you save it and reopne. Also the heading formatting is lost > sometimes (bold is changed to not-bold). Note that these same exact problems > occur when you have the Word 2007 converter installed for Word 2003. Also > styles sometimes just change on me spontaneously (as if "automatic update" > was checked on the style, though it is not). > > How have you been dealing with this? Any fresh ideas? I have been just not > using numbering in some books, but for books where I HAVE to use both heading > numbering and list numbering, I am just saving the FINAL document file as > Word 2007, correcting all the numbering problems at that time. This means we > all have to tolerate flakey numbering as we pass the document around AND a > huge amount of work for me at the end trying to correct all the problems when > the file is very large. And the numbering gets REALLY out of whack. > > Any knowledge about this? I find NOTHING in the KnowledgeBase. > > Thanks much, > > Natelle |