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Word 2007, tables, and making them "behave" like Word 2002
Here's a weird one for everyone...a series of documents were created
in Word 2002 a few years ago in my office that were improperly formatted. Among other things, excess characters in table rows such as paragraph breaks were completely ignored. As a result, a document containing a 3 column x 2 row table fit exactly on 2 pages. Along comes Word 2007...which I had to install on someone's machine because she was receiving a lot of .docx files from people via email. All of a sudden, Word formats the table rows across multiple pages, has trouble with one image (which is easy enough to solve by removing the image and replacing it), and turns what was a 2-page document into an illegible 7-page document. The documents can be fixed...but the person who messed them up doesn't want to hear "the problem isn't Word, but in the documents" because "I haven't got all day to fix these documents" (which are 5-minute fixes...and I've said it about 3 times). And I'm not about to uninstall Word 2007 and put in Word 2002 due to what effectively amounts to improperly formatted documents. Basically, all I'm looking for is a way for Word 2007 to behave with the "forgiveness" of Word 2002. In other words, for the documents to act as they did in the previous version. Is this even possible? And why does Word 2002 forgive things that Word 2007 does not? |
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Word 2007, tables, and making them "behave" like Word 2002
Try this.
Click the Office Button and click Word Options. Click Advanced and scroll down to Compatibility Options. By Lay out this document as if created in and click the down arrow and select Microsoft Word 2000. " wrote: Here's a weird one for everyone...a series of documents were created in Word 2002 a few years ago in my office that were improperly formatted. Among other things, excess characters in table rows such as paragraph breaks were completely ignored. As a result, a document containing a 3 column x 2 row table fit exactly on 2 pages. Along comes Word 2007...which I had to install on someone's machine because she was receiving a lot of .docx files from people via email. All of a sudden, Word formats the table rows across multiple pages, has trouble with one image (which is easy enough to solve by removing the image and replacing it), and turns what was a 2-page document into an illegible 7-page document. The documents can be fixed...but the person who messed them up doesn't want to hear "the problem isn't Word, but in the documents" because "I haven't got all day to fix these documents" (which are 5-minute fixes...and I've said it about 3 times). And I'm not about to uninstall Word 2007 and put in Word 2002 due to what effectively amounts to improperly formatted documents. Basically, all I'm looking for is a way for Word 2007 to behave with the "forgiveness" of Word 2002. In other words, for the documents to act as they did in the previous version. Is this even possible? And why does Word 2002 forgive things that Word 2007 does not? |
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Word 2007, tables, and making them "behave" like Word 2002
On Dec 17, 3:00*pm, SandyH wrote:
Try this. Click the Office Button and click Word Options. Click Advanced and scroll down to Compatibility Options. By Lay out this document as if created in and click the down arrow and select Microsoft Word 2000. " wrote: Here's a weird one for everyone...a series of documents were created in Word 2002 a few years ago in my office that were improperly formatted. *Among other things, excess characters in table rows such as paragraph breaks were completely ignored. *As a result, a document containing a 3 column x 2 row table fit exactly on 2 pages. Along comes Word 2007...which I had to install on someone's machine because she was receiving a lot of .docx files from people via email. All of a sudden, Word formats the table rows across multiple pages, has trouble with one image (which is easy enough to solve by removing the image and replacing it), and turns what was a 2-page document into an illegible 7-page document. The documents can be fixed...but the person who messed them up doesn't want to hear "the problem isn't Word, but in the documents" because "I haven't got all day to fix these documents" (which are 5-minute fixes...and I've said it about 3 times). *And I'm not about to uninstall Word 2007 and put in Word 2002 due to what effectively amounts to improperly formatted documents. Basically, all I'm looking for is a way for Word 2007 to behave with the "forgiveness" of Word 2002. *In other words, for the documents to act as they did in the previous version. *Is this even possible? *And why does Word 2002 forgive things that Word 2007 does not?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks, Sandy...but no luck. It looks exactly the same. |
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