atw: Re: Word 2003/2007 questions

Christine,

I haven't run VirtualPC but I am running VMWare Workstation. It's pretty good. 
I haven't had any trouble so far.

I'm mainly using it to try out various products.

Last year, you could obtain and use it at no cost, but I notice it's no longer 
included among their free downloads.

John
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Christine Kent 
  To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 5:52 PM
  Subject: atw: Word 2003/2007 questions


  Guys - is anyone out there working in 2007 and 2003?

  Part 1
  I am editing a book written in 2007 that has those lovely new fonts.  I am 
working in 2003.  When I accessed the 2007 documents using 2003 everything was 
lovely except the nice new fonts in tables defaulted back to times new roman - 
as per the table style set in the 2003.

  So, not to be beaten by MS, I hunted around the web and downloaded those 
lovely new fonts, which then did two things.  First, they miraculously took 
over my desktop - I'm not complaining cos they are nice, but it concerns me 
that they can do this - they are executables.  Second, the fonts I downloaded 
display smaller than they did before I downloaded them - still 10 pt, but 
scaled down on-screen so they display more characters to a line etc.  I fuss 
and fiddle with pagination with the smaller font, send the document to the 
publisher, they don't have the font on their machines, open them in 2000, then 
convert them to PDF and my pagination is shot to pieces because they are now 
displaying in the larger font again.  Does anyone know what I can specifically 
do with the fonts to fix this?  If I suggest the publisher loads the fonts, 
might terrible things happen, and their entire system fall over (mine seems 
stable)?

  Part 2
  One suggestion is that I run VirtualPC" so that I can run Vista/2007 on what 
looks like one computer and XP/2003 and what looks like a second computer (so 
they aren't both accessing the same registry).  Anyone tried it?  
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx 

  Part 3
  Another suggestion is to stick to 2003 and use the compatibility pack.  
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en
  Does it work?

  Part 4
  If anyone has gone 2007 altogether, does it do anything nasty to earlier 
files?  In other words, if we go 2007 completely with most of our files in 2000 
and 2003, will it mess them up?

  Part 5
  Has anyone converted 2007 word files to PDF?  Has Acrobat caught up and do 
they convert properly?

  Regards, Christine





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