atw: Re: Advice on upgrading to Word 2007
- From: "Christine Kent" <christine_kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:27:57 +1100
Dead easy. I do if for the publisher I work for - work in 2007 and save to
2003. Never had a compatibility problem. Only thing is, you will be stuck
with the old Fonts if their machines have not rolled out an upgraded XP
which includes the new fonts, or the Compatibility Pack. Also totally
stable as far as I am aware.
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> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart Burnfield
> Sent: Monday, 14 January 2008 1:50 PM
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> Subject: atw: Re: Advice on upgrading to Word 2007
>
> Thanks Christine.
>
> Just to clarify something: the people I work with will be staying
> with Office 2003. I have no influence over when or whether they
> upgrade. So I need to be able to work in Word 2007 and easily create
> documents and templates that can be used by Word 2003 users with zero
> effort on their part. Therefore I need Word 2003 to be my default
> format, not docx. The good news is that this seems to be
> possible--see below.
>
> Christine's e-mail led me to this blog, which answers most of my
> remaining questions:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/rss_tag_compatibility.xml
>
> Compatibility Highlights:
>
> Word 2007 creates files that can be viewed by anyone for free (via
> the Word Viewer & Compatibility Pack)
> Word 2007 creates files that can be opened and saved in previous
> versions of Word (via the Compatibility Pack)
> Word 2007 has new features that cannot be edited or cannot be
> represented in previous versions of Word
> Word 2007 will not change the layout of documents created in
> previous versions of Word
> Word 2007 can save files in the .doc (Word ’97-2003) file format
> Word 2007 provides a way to check for features that cannot be
> edited or represented in previous versions of Word (via the
> Compatibility Checker)
> Word 2007 provides a way to ensure that features that cannot be
> edited or represented in previous versions of Word cannot be put into
> documents (via Compatibility Mode)
>
> New UI Highlights:
>
> Commands exist within Tabs which describe a type of
> activity/scenario you may want to perform.
> To Insert a table, go to the Insert tab. To change your View of
> your document, go to the View tab. Etc.
> If none of the Tabs match what you are trying to do, use the Word
> 2007 guide to tell you exactly where the command is.
>
> Bullets and Numbering: I put a bit of effort into getting these to
> work properly, using the guidance in the Word MVPs site,
> http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html and
> http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bullets/controlbullets.html
>
> There were many ways to mangle bullets and numbering in Word 2003,
> but as long as you followed the One True Path they would work
> reliably. If the True Path is different in Word 2007, I hope it's
> different and better, not just... different.
>
> Stuart
>
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