Office 2007
Thanks Bob that seems to do the trick nicely. I notice Msoft as usual
issue all the usual warnings...
For WORD, EXCEL, ACCESS it now seems to work thus: Whatever version
was last loaded (2003 or 2007), if I double click a DOC, XLS, MDB file
then that version (2003 or 2007) gets used. Which is fine.
I wonder why Msoft never seem to think in terms of making life as easy
as possible for users? If they dis, they might think to mention these
things and not leave people to rummage round to find out!
I did have a quick look at OpenOffice but feel nervous about going
that route, it seems to spell even more change - different file
formats for example, and I tried to load a MDB database with BASE and
it freaked out and just disappeared. And my EXCEL XLS charts looked
very weird. I was impressed with the intuitively obvious UI,
reminiscent of Office2003.
Phil
On 20 Jan, 14:38, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" 75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com wrote:
Hi Phil,
There wasn't any specific focused work on the Master Documents area (originally added to match one in WordPerfect g). Some folks
have reported it being more stable than previously, which may be from the change to the new file formats and to some work on
stability in numbering and styles.
You can reduce the 'between versions' setup run behavior with the NoReReg registry key setting covered in the 'Multiple versions of
Word' section ofhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091
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"Phil" wrote in ...
re Graham Mayor below
Thanks for all that. I agree with every word you say - Outlook2007 is
OK, an improvement I feel, but everything else is a disaster. I've
used WORD for at least 10 years, have written 2 books and god knows
how much else with it - thoroughly conversant with contents lists,
styles, change tracking, footnotes/endnotes, multi-section documents,
etc. Now its taking me weeks to get familiar with all this in 2007
and in every case so far, once i've found how to do it, I find it
harder and more awkward than it used to be. One major drawback in 2003
- very large documents - the 'Master Document' facility was a well
known shambles so I assumed it would be fixed. Has it? Not as far as I
can see.
I agree with Graham that one just has to keep both versions
available. Though I note that if I use WORD2003, next time I load
WORD2007 there's a 2 minute delay while something gets reconfigured.
Any way to stop that?
Phil
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
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