atw: Re: Word 2003/2007 questions

Virtual PC-ing is a very good way of dealing with the need for test and
reliable working machine. Almost indestructible, certainly indestructible
for tech writers. But developers can do anything...
I have found it aggravating but that is more a taste and inexperience thing
I suspect.
Warren.

-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John New
Sent: Saturday, 24 March 2007 12:11
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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 <mailto:c.bkent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
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
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE
-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en> &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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