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Why is Pagination Different with Windows Word 2003 & Mac Word 2004
I work on Word documents on both the Windows XP and Mac OSX platforms with
Word 2003 for Windows and Word 204 for the Mac. When I open a document created in Windows on the Mac the pagination is often different by a line or two. This happens even when I use standard fonts like Ariel or Verdana which are installed on both machines. Why does this happen? Can this be fixed? I need to see the document the same on each machine. Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm.
-- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "rjonas" wrote in message ... I work on Word documents on both the Windows XP and Mac OSX platforms with Word 2003 for Windows and Word 204 for the Mac. When I open a document created in Windows on the Mac the pagination is often different by a line or two. This happens even when I use standard fonts like Ariel or Verdana which are installed on both machines. Why does this happen? Can this be fixed? I need to see the document the same on each machine. Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks |
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:11:02 -0800, rjonas
wrote: I work on Word documents on both the Windows XP and Mac OSX platforms with Word 2003 for Windows and Word 204 for the Mac. When I open a document created in Windows on the Mac the pagination is often different by a line or two. This happens even when I use standard fonts like Ariel or Verdana which are installed on both machines. Why does this happen? Can this be fixed? I need to see the document the same on each machine. Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks Since you're never going to get the same printer driver to run on the same platform, you're almost always going to run into this problem, as explained in http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm. Can you make a PDF of the document on one machine and transfer it to the other? Or do you have to be able to edit the document in both environments? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Jay, I need to edit the document on both platforms and if the pagination
changes that could potentially, but not necessarily, cause me a problem. Thanks for responding so fast. Ron "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:11:02 -0800, rjonas wrote: I work on Word documents on both the Windows XP and Mac OSX platforms with Word 2003 for Windows and Word 204 for the Mac. When I open a document created in Windows on the Mac the pagination is often different by a line or two. This happens even when I use standard fonts like Ariel or Verdana which are installed on both machines. Why does this happen? Can this be fixed? I need to see the document the same on each machine. Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks Since you're never going to get the same printer driver to run on the same platform, you're almost always going to run into this problem, as explained in http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm. Can you make a PDF of the document on one machine and transfer it to the other? Or do you have to be able to edit the document in both environments? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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I work around this problem by using Acrobat Distiller as the default printer on
all machines I use for common documents. It might be worth trying this trick. Steven |
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