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Why that feature was removed when it worked perfectly in Word 2003, escapes
me. I have always (since early 90's) had and used plenty of ocr software. The problem is that I want to scan directly into word without making a multi step process. This causes formatting problems when trying to import a scanned document or copy and paste into word. It is time consuming and an unnecessary waste of time. I need to scan multi page documents that can be emailed as an attachment in Word format. I have solved the problem temporarily but reinstalling Word 2003 but every time I change from one version to the other, I have to wait for the software to change from one version to the other. Please, please is there any chance that the feature will be returned? I am using Vista Ultimate. |
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Whatever the merits of the scanning methods, you don't have to wait for Word
to reconfigure if you switch between versions, provided you make a minor registry change for the version you don't want as default - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for details. Microsoft Document Imaging is included with Word 2007 but not installed by default. You can start from that and scan (and OCR) documents into Word or directly to e-mail attachment. That's the best you are likely to achieve. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Why that feature was removed when it worked perfectly in Word 2003, escapes me. I have always (since early 90's) had and used plenty of ocr software. The problem is that I want to scan directly into word without making a multi step process. This causes formatting problems when trying to import a scanned document or copy and paste into word. It is time consuming and an unnecessary waste of time. I need to scan multi page documents that can be emailed as an attachment in Word format. I have solved the problem temporarily but reinstalling Word 2003 but every time I change from one version to the other, I have to wait for the software to change from one version to the other. Please, please is there any chance that the feature will be returned? I am using Vista Ultimate. |
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Yes, I tried that long before my post. To me, it is lame, useless and still
creates a 2 or more step process per page. Who knows what an xps document is? I have additional, ordinary word processing paragraphs and pages that need to be included with the scanned pages. This does not work for a 20 page document as each page gets handled separately. I had trouble with a 3 page dcument. I had to create 3 separate document images. I do not want a document image, I want a regular document the same way as it does in Word 2003. That is why I reinstalled Word 2003. If someone wants to comment or make additions or otherwise "tweak" the document image and send it back, how does that work in an xps file? Again, I do not know anyone I communicate with who is using Word 2007, including my students. I am a college professor and teach some online courses, including computer courses. Thanks for the instructions for tweaking the registry. It does not help for what I want. I am not trying to change the default so I guess I will have to continue using Word 2003 for scanning and Word 2007 for everything else. If you have any influence, please suggest deleting the "feature" (document imaging)in SP1 for Word 2007 and reimplementing the easy wonderful option to scan directly into a word document. Thanks for trying. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Whatever the merits of the scanning methods, you don't have to wait for Word to reconfigure if you switch between versions, provided you make a minor registry change for the version you don't want as default - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for details. Microsoft Document Imaging is included with Word 2007 but not installed by default. You can start from that and scan (and OCR) documents into Word or directly to e-mail attachment. That's the best you are likely to achieve. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Why that feature was removed when it worked perfectly in Word 2003, escapes me. I have always (since early 90's) had and used plenty of ocr software. The problem is that I want to scan directly into word without making a multi step process. This causes formatting problems when trying to import a scanned document or copy and paste into word. It is time consuming and an unnecessary waste of time. I need to scan multi page documents that can be emailed as an attachment in Word format. I have solved the problem temporarily but reinstalling Word 2003 but every time I change from one version to the other, I have to wait for the software to change from one version to the other. Please, please is there any chance that the feature will be returned? I am using Vista Ultimate. |
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The registry hack I referred to simply stops the reconfiguring of Word 2003
when it is started that you complained about (or you could apply the hack to Word 2007 if you have Word 2003 as your usual preferred version). If you are exchanging documents with users with Word 2003, then you need to save your documents in Word 97-2003 format or those users will not be able to open them (unless they have installed the compatibility pack which they may not wish to do). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Yes, I tried that long before my post. To me, it is lame, useless and still creates a 2 or more step process per page. Who knows what an xps document is? I have additional, ordinary word processing paragraphs and pages that need to be included with the scanned pages. This does not work for a 20 page document as each page gets handled separately. I had trouble with a 3 page dcument. I had to create 3 separate document images. I do not want a document image, I want a regular document the same way as it does in Word 2003. That is why I reinstalled Word 2003. If someone wants to comment or make additions or otherwise "tweak" the document image and send it back, how does that work in an xps file? Again, I do not know anyone I communicate with who is using Word 2007, including my students. I am a college professor and teach some online courses, including computer courses. Thanks for the instructions for tweaking the registry. It does not help for what I want. I am not trying to change the default so I guess I will have to continue using Word 2003 for scanning and Word 2007 for everything else. If you have any influence, please suggest deleting the "feature" (document imaging)in SP1 for Word 2007 and reimplementing the easy wonderful option to scan directly into a word document. Thanks for trying. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Whatever the merits of the scanning methods, you don't have to wait for Word to reconfigure if you switch between versions, provided you make a minor registry change for the version you don't want as default - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for details. Microsoft Document Imaging is included with Word 2007 but not installed by default. You can start from that and scan (and OCR) documents into Word or directly to e-mail attachment. That's the best you are likely to achieve. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Why that feature was removed when it worked perfectly in Word 2003, escapes me. I have always (since early 90's) had and used plenty of ocr software. The problem is that I want to scan directly into word without making a multi step process. This causes formatting problems when trying to import a scanned document or copy and paste into word. It is time consuming and an unnecessary waste of time. I need to scan multi page documents that can be emailed as an attachment in Word format. I have solved the problem temporarily but reinstalling Word 2003 but every time I change from one version to the other, I have to wait for the software to change from one version to the other. Please, please is there any chance that the feature will be returned? I am using Vista Ultimate. |
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I understand and I save documents in Word 97-2003. I am not asking for a
registry hack and I am not asking how to save documents. I am requesting that the scan directly into Word 2007 be implemented as it was in previous versions. Thank you "Graham Mayor" wrote: The registry hack I referred to simply stops the reconfiguring of Word 2003 when it is started that you complained about (or you could apply the hack to Word 2007 if you have Word 2003 as your usual preferred version). If you are exchanging documents with users with Word 2003, then you need to save your documents in Word 97-2003 format or those users will not be able to open them (unless they have installed the compatibility pack which they may not wish to do). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Yes, I tried that long before my post. To me, it is lame, useless and still creates a 2 or more step process per page. Who knows what an xps document is? I have additional, ordinary word processing paragraphs and pages that need to be included with the scanned pages. This does not work for a 20 page document as each page gets handled separately. I had trouble with a 3 page dcument. I had to create 3 separate document images. I do not want a document image, I want a regular document the same way as it does in Word 2003. That is why I reinstalled Word 2003. If someone wants to comment or make additions or otherwise "tweak" the document image and send it back, how does that work in an xps file? Again, I do not know anyone I communicate with who is using Word 2007, including my students. I am a college professor and teach some online courses, including computer courses. Thanks for the instructions for tweaking the registry. It does not help for what I want. I am not trying to change the default so I guess I will have to continue using Word 2003 for scanning and Word 2007 for everything else. If you have any influence, please suggest deleting the "feature" (document imaging)in SP1 for Word 2007 and reimplementing the easy wonderful option to scan directly into a word document. Thanks for trying. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Whatever the merits of the scanning methods, you don't have to wait for Word to reconfigure if you switch between versions, provided you make a minor registry change for the version you don't want as default - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for details. Microsoft Document Imaging is included with Word 2007 but not installed by default. You can start from that and scan (and OCR) documents into Word or directly to e-mail attachment. That's the best you are likely to achieve. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Why that feature was removed when it worked perfectly in Word 2003, escapes me. I have always (since early 90's) had and used plenty of ocr software. The problem is that I want to scan directly into word without making a multi step process. This causes formatting problems when trying to import a scanned document or copy and paste into word. It is time consuming and an unnecessary waste of time. I need to scan multi page documents that can be emailed as an attachment in Word format. I have solved the problem temporarily but reinstalling Word 2003 but every time I change from one version to the other, I have to wait for the software to change from one version to the other. Please, please is there any chance that the feature will be returned? I am using Vista Ultimate. |
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Scanning a document into Word 2007
You also complained about the delay when switching between versions!
The scanning I can do nothing about, but the delay is addressed in the link. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: I understand and I save documents in Word 97-2003. I am not asking for a registry hack and I am not asking how to save documents. I am requesting that the scan directly into Word 2007 be implemented as it was in previous versions. Thank you "Graham Mayor" wrote: The registry hack I referred to simply stops the reconfiguring of Word 2003 when it is started that you complained about (or you could apply the hack to Word 2007 if you have Word 2003 as your usual preferred version). If you are exchanging documents with users with Word 2003, then you need to save your documents in Word 97-2003 format or those users will not be able to open them (unless they have installed the compatibility pack which they may not wish to do). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Yes, I tried that long before my post. To me, it is lame, useless and still creates a 2 or more step process per page. Who knows what an xps document is? I have additional, ordinary word processing paragraphs and pages that need to be included with the scanned pages. This does not work for a 20 page document as each page gets handled separately. I had trouble with a 3 page dcument. I had to create 3 separate document images. I do not want a document image, I want a regular document the same way as it does in Word 2003. That is why I reinstalled Word 2003. If someone wants to comment or make additions or otherwise "tweak" the document image and send it back, how does that work in an xps file? Again, I do not know anyone I communicate with who is using Word 2007, including my students. I am a college professor and teach some online courses, including computer courses. Thanks for the instructions for tweaking the registry. It does not help for what I want. I am not trying to change the default so I guess I will have to continue using Word 2003 for scanning and Word 2007 for everything else. If you have any influence, please suggest deleting the "feature" (document imaging)in SP1 for Word 2007 and reimplementing the easy wonderful option to scan directly into a word document. Thanks for trying. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Whatever the merits of the scanning methods, you don't have to wait for Word to reconfigure if you switch between versions, provided you make a minor registry change for the version you don't want as default - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for details. Microsoft Document Imaging is included with Word 2007 but not installed by default. You can start from that and scan (and OCR) documents into Word or directly to e-mail attachment. That's the best you are likely to achieve. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Why that feature was removed when it worked perfectly in Word 2003, escapes me. I have always (since early 90's) had and used plenty of ocr software. The problem is that I want to scan directly into word without making a multi step process. This causes formatting problems when trying to import a scanned document or copy and paste into word. It is time consuming and an unnecessary waste of time. I need to scan multi page documents that can be emailed as an attachment in Word format. I have solved the problem temporarily but reinstalling Word 2003 but every time I change from one version to the other, I have to wait for the software to change from one version to the other. Please, please is there any chance that the feature will be returned? I am using Vista Ultimate. |
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"idiotrix" wrote: I understand and I save documents in Word 97-2003. I am not asking for a registry hack and I am not asking how to save documents. I am requesting that the scan directly into Word 2007 be implemented as it was in previous versions. Thank you "Graham Mayor" wrote: The registry hack I referred to simply stops the reconfiguring of Word 2003 when it is started that you complained about (or you could apply the hack to Word 2007 if you have Word 2003 as your usual preferred version). If you are exchanging documents with users with Word 2003, then you need to save your documents in Word 97-2003 format or those users will not be able to open them (unless they have installed the compatibility pack which they may not wish to do). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Yes, I tried that long before my post. To me, it is lame, useless and still creates a 2 or more step process per page. Who knows what an xps document is? I have additional, ordinary word processing paragraphs and pages that need to be included with the scanned pages. This does not work for a 20 page document as each page gets handled separately. I had trouble with a 3 page dcument. I had to create 3 separate document images. I do not want a document image, I want a regular document the same way as it does in Word 2003. That is why I reinstalled Word 2003. If someone wants to comment or make additions or otherwise "tweak" the document image and send it back, how does that work in an xps file? Again, I do not know anyone I communicate with who is using Word 2007, including my students. I am a college professor and teach some online courses, including computer courses. Thanks for the instructions for tweaking the registry. It does not help for what I want. I am not trying to change the default so I guess I will have to continue using Word 2003 for scanning and Word 2007 for everything else. If you have any influence, please suggest deleting the "feature" (document imaging)in SP1 for Word 2007 and reimplementing the easy wonderful option to scan directly into a word document. Thanks for trying. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Whatever the merits of the scanning methods, you don't have to wait for Word to reconfigure if you switch between versions, provided you make a minor registry change for the version you don't want as default - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for details. Microsoft Document Imaging is included with Word 2007 but not installed by default. You can start from that and scan (and OCR) documents into Word or directly to e-mail attachment. That's the best you are likely to achieve. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Why that feature was removed when it worked perfectly in Word 2003, escapes me. I have always (since early 90's) had and used plenty of ocr software. The problem is that I want to scan directly into word without making a multi step process. This causes formatting problems when trying to import a scanned document or copy and paste into word. It is time consuming and an unnecessary waste of time. I need to scan multi page documents that can be emailed as an attachment in Word format. I have solved the problem temporarily but reinstalling Word 2003 but every time I change from one version to the other, I have to wait for the software to change from one version to the other. Please, please is there any chance that the feature will be returned? I am using Vista Ultimate. |
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I am with you idotrix. I also am a College instructor & I am VERY
dissapointed that I can NOT scan directly into WORD. Seems to be going backwards with this new development. I did not keep my older version of WORD, so I am stuck! "sno" wrote: "idiotrix" wrote: I understand and I save documents in Word 97-2003. I am not asking for a registry hack and I am not asking how to save documents. I am requesting that the scan directly into Word 2007 be implemented as it was in previous versions. Thank you "Graham Mayor" wrote: The registry hack I referred to simply stops the reconfiguring of Word 2003 when it is started that you complained about (or you could apply the hack to Word 2007 if you have Word 2003 as your usual preferred version). If you are exchanging documents with users with Word 2003, then you need to save your documents in Word 97-2003 format or those users will not be able to open them (unless they have installed the compatibility pack which they may not wish to do). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Yes, I tried that long before my post. To me, it is lame, useless and still creates a 2 or more step process per page. Who knows what an xps document is? I have additional, ordinary word processing paragraphs and pages that need to be included with the scanned pages. This does not work for a 20 page document as each page gets handled separately. I had trouble with a 3 page dcument. I had to create 3 separate document images. I do not want a document image, I want a regular document the same way as it does in Word 2003. That is why I reinstalled Word 2003. If someone wants to comment or make additions or otherwise "tweak" the document image and send it back, how does that work in an xps file? Again, I do not know anyone I communicate with who is using Word 2007, including my students. I am a college professor and teach some online courses, including computer courses. Thanks for the instructions for tweaking the registry. It does not help for what I want. I am not trying to change the default so I guess I will have to continue using Word 2003 for scanning and Word 2007 for everything else. If you have any influence, please suggest deleting the "feature" (document imaging)in SP1 for Word 2007 and reimplementing the easy wonderful option to scan directly into a word document. Thanks for trying. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Whatever the merits of the scanning methods, you don't have to wait for Word to reconfigure if you switch between versions, provided you make a minor registry change for the version you don't want as default - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for details. Microsoft Document Imaging is included with Word 2007 but not installed by default. You can start from that and scan (and OCR) documents into Word or directly to e-mail attachment. That's the best you are likely to achieve. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Why that feature was removed when it worked perfectly in Word 2003, escapes me. I have always (since early 90's) had and used plenty of ocr software. The problem is that I want to scan directly into word without making a multi step process. This causes formatting problems when trying to import a scanned document or copy and paste into word. It is time consuming and an unnecessary waste of time. I need to scan multi page documents that can be emailed as an attachment in Word format. I have solved the problem temporarily but reinstalling Word 2003 but every time I change from one version to the other, I have to wait for the software to change from one version to the other. Please, please is there any chance that the feature will be returned? I am using Vista Ultimate. |
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Please help us get back the capability to scan DIRECTLY into WORD again!
"Graham Mayor" wrote: The registry hack I referred to simply stops the reconfiguring of Word 2003 when it is started that you complained about (or you could apply the hack to Word 2007 if you have Word 2003 as your usual preferred version). If you are exchanging documents with users with Word 2003, then you need to save your documents in Word 97-2003 format or those users will not be able to open them (unless they have installed the compatibility pack which they may not wish to do). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Yes, I tried that long before my post. To me, it is lame, useless and still creates a 2 or more step process per page. Who knows what an xps document is? I have additional, ordinary word processing paragraphs and pages that need to be included with the scanned pages. This does not work for a 20 page document as each page gets handled separately. I had trouble with a 3 page dcument. I had to create 3 separate document images. I do not want a document image, I want a regular document the same way as it does in Word 2003. That is why I reinstalled Word 2003. If someone wants to comment or make additions or otherwise "tweak" the document image and send it back, how does that work in an xps file? Again, I do not know anyone I communicate with who is using Word 2007, including my students. I am a college professor and teach some online courses, including computer courses. Thanks for the instructions for tweaking the registry. It does not help for what I want. I am not trying to change the default so I guess I will have to continue using Word 2003 for scanning and Word 2007 for everything else. If you have any influence, please suggest deleting the "feature" (document imaging)in SP1 for Word 2007 and reimplementing the easy wonderful option to scan directly into a word document. Thanks for trying. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Whatever the merits of the scanning methods, you don't have to wait for Word to reconfigure if you switch between versions, provided you make a minor registry change for the version you don't want as default - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for details. Microsoft Document Imaging is included with Word 2007 but not installed by default. You can start from that and scan (and OCR) documents into Word or directly to e-mail attachment. That's the best you are likely to achieve. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Why that feature was removed when it worked perfectly in Word 2003, escapes me. I have always (since early 90's) had and used plenty of ocr software. The problem is that I want to scan directly into word without making a multi step process. This causes formatting problems when trying to import a scanned document or copy and paste into word. It is time consuming and an unnecessary waste of time. I need to scan multi page documents that can be emailed as an attachment in Word format. I have solved the problem temporarily but reinstalling Word 2003 but every time I change from one version to the other, I have to wait for the software to change from one version to the other. Please, please is there any chance that the feature will be returned? I am using Vista Ultimate. |
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Does this help?
http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com/2...-in-word-2007/ -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "sno" wrote in message ... I am with you idotrix. I also am a College instructor & I am VERY dissapointed that I can NOT scan directly into WORD. Seems to be going backwards with this new development. I did not keep my older version of WORD, so I am stuck! "sno" wrote: "idiotrix" wrote: I understand and I save documents in Word 97-2003. I am not asking for a registry hack and I am not asking how to save documents. I am requesting that the scan directly into Word 2007 be implemented as it was in previous versions. Thank you "Graham Mayor" wrote: The registry hack I referred to simply stops the reconfiguring of Word 2003 when it is started that you complained about (or you could apply the hack to Word 2007 if you have Word 2003 as your usual preferred version). If you are exchanging documents with users with Word 2003, then you need to save your documents in Word 97-2003 format or those users will not be able to open them (unless they have installed the compatibility pack which they may not wish to do). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Yes, I tried that long before my post. To me, it is lame, useless and still creates a 2 or more step process per page. Who knows what an xps document is? I have additional, ordinary word processing paragraphs and pages that need to be included with the scanned pages. This does not work for a 20 page document as each page gets handled separately. I had trouble with a 3 page dcument. I had to create 3 separate document images. I do not want a document image, I want a regular document the same way as it does in Word 2003. That is why I reinstalled Word 2003. If someone wants to comment or make additions or otherwise "tweak" the document image and send it back, how does that work in an xps file? Again, I do not know anyone I communicate with who is using Word 2007, including my students. I am a college professor and teach some online courses, including computer courses. Thanks for the instructions for tweaking the registry. It does not help for what I want. I am not trying to change the default so I guess I will have to continue using Word 2003 for scanning and Word 2007 for everything else. If you have any influence, please suggest deleting the "feature" (document imaging)in SP1 for Word 2007 and reimplementing the easy wonderful option to scan directly into a word document. Thanks for trying. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Whatever the merits of the scanning methods, you don't have to wait for Word to reconfigure if you switch between versions, provided you make a minor registry change for the version you don't want as default - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for details. Microsoft Document Imaging is included with Word 2007 but not installed by default. You can start from that and scan (and OCR) documents into Word or directly to e-mail attachment. That's the best you are likely to achieve. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Why that feature was removed when it worked perfectly in Word 2003, escapes me. I have always (since early 90's) had and used plenty of ocr software. The problem is that I want to scan directly into word without making a multi step process. This causes formatting problems when trying to import a scanned document or copy and paste into word. It is time consuming and an unnecessary waste of time. I need to scan multi page documents that can be emailed as an attachment in Word format. I have solved the problem temporarily but reinstalling Word 2003 but every time I change from one version to the other, I have to wait for the software to change from one version to the other. Please, please is there any chance that the feature will be returned? I am using Vista Ultimate. |
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Why do you think I would have any ability to do this? Neither I nor anyone
corresponding here is employed by Microsoft. It is a user peer group. However, fellow MVP Herb Tyson has discovered that the ancient WordBasic command that called the Scanner dialog is still present in Word and can be called by the macro on the web page for which he has posted a link. You can add the macro to the QAT. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org sno wrote: Please help us get back the capability to scan DIRECTLY into WORD again! "Graham Mayor" wrote: The registry hack I referred to simply stops the reconfiguring of Word 2003 when it is started that you complained about (or you could apply the hack to Word 2007 if you have Word 2003 as your usual preferred version). If you are exchanging documents with users with Word 2003, then you need to save your documents in Word 97-2003 format or those users will not be able to open them (unless they have installed the compatibility pack which they may not wish to do). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Yes, I tried that long before my post. To me, it is lame, useless and still creates a 2 or more step process per page. Who knows what an xps document is? I have additional, ordinary word processing paragraphs and pages that need to be included with the scanned pages. This does not work for a 20 page document as each page gets handled separately. I had trouble with a 3 page dcument. I had to create 3 separate document images. I do not want a document image, I want a regular document the same way as it does in Word 2003. That is why I reinstalled Word 2003. If someone wants to comment or make additions or otherwise "tweak" the document image and send it back, how does that work in an xps file? Again, I do not know anyone I communicate with who is using Word 2007, including my students. I am a college professor and teach some online courses, including computer courses. Thanks for the instructions for tweaking the registry. It does not help for what I want. I am not trying to change the default so I guess I will have to continue using Word 2003 for scanning and Word 2007 for everything else. If you have any influence, please suggest deleting the "feature" (document imaging)in SP1 for Word 2007 and reimplementing the easy wonderful option to scan directly into a word document. Thanks for trying. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Whatever the merits of the scanning methods, you don't have to wait for Word to reconfigure if you switch between versions, provided you make a minor registry change for the version you don't want as default - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for details. Microsoft Document Imaging is included with Word 2007 but not installed by default. You can start from that and scan (and OCR) documents into Word or directly to e-mail attachment. That's the best you are likely to achieve. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org idiotrix wrote: Why that feature was removed when it worked perfectly in Word 2003, escapes me. I have always (since early 90's) had and used plenty of ocr software. The problem is that I want to scan directly into word without making a multi step process. This causes formatting problems when trying to import a scanned document or copy and paste into word. It is time consuming and an unnecessary waste of time. I need to scan multi page documents that can be emailed as an attachment in Word format. I have solved the problem temporarily but reinstalling Word 2003 but every time I change from one version to the other, I have to wait for the software to change from one version to the other. Please, please is there any chance that the feature will be returned? I am using Vista Ultimate. |
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