Dear Naomi (Kramer) Upgrade one / downgrade the other. Whatever gets the ages / eras / epochs of the two interacting applications in synch. Good use of lateral thinking, plus you solved some other issues. Well done! Michael Granat Write Ideas At 12:31 1/3/2004, you wrote: >Michael, I went the other way and downgraded Word to 2000. Worked like = >a >charm. Plus the bugs I ran into in Word were ones I know how to work = >around >(images, numbered lists and styles seem to be worse than ever in newer >versions of Word) :) =20 > >I had tried updating Acrobat, it did nothing for that particular issue. >Ditto for turning off background printing. > >*shrug* > >In my experience, at times all one can do is shudder, esp. when using = >Word >too much :) > >- Naomi Michael Granat -- Write Ideas* Plain English Technical Communication. Advertising Copywriting. Business Writing. E-mail: writeideas@xxxxxxxx Web Site: <http://home.pacific.net.au/~megranat/> *Trading As business #0828673K Registered (1987) Corporate Affairs Victoria, Australia. WITHOUT PREJUDICE E & OE ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************