atw: More Word 2007 problems (no rant)

Okay, I stumbled upon a number of frustrating problems today.
 
1. May well be a problem with group templates on a network causing Word 2007
to hang. Be careful.
2. Charming problem, if you see a message in the bottom left "Connecting to
printer" or equivalent, do the suggested thing and hit Escape. If Word
crashes, check you have a default printer set up. This was a bug in Word
Perfect many years ago. Same one is in Word. I feel a bit cheesy...
 
I found some curious alterations today to margins following a change to and
from a portrait layout in my large document. It was simple to fix but -
obviously, a pain. Christine's comments apply to working with legacy
documents, start with rigid adherence to Styles, and Formatting, get your
tables all sorted out, before you go to Word 2007.
 
Another great little add-in is the beautiful compression service. It seems
to work very quickly, and very effectively. I went from 13Mb down to 4.5Mb.
Very impressive, the same files in 2003 only went down to about 7-9Mb.
Quality remains the same.
 
Christine kindly sent me an email to try and establish the facts from the
rant. I realise the facts are a little murky so will let people know when I
have more time to play regarding the template problem.
 
I have noticed that on REALLY fast machines, as my newly re-built work box
is, Word 2007 flies. Absolutely flies. I am on XP duo core  250Gb hd, 2gb
(or more) RAM and a dual screen video card with a fair bit of grunt to start
with. It is the fastest version of Word. Ever... Even faster than Word 2003
on the same machine back a few weeks ago. 
 
BUT. What really impressed me today, was, even when Word wasn't cooperating,
wouldn't run or would hang, it saved everything I changed in the documents I
tried to work in. That has to be a FIRST!
 
For those interested, I crunched a Photoshop file because I ran out of
scratch disk space creating a poster. Hence the need for "more power."
 
wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxx
 
WJL Consulting.
PO Box 404,
Liverpool, NSW
Australia, 1871
www.wjl.com.au <http://www.wjl.com.au/> 
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