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Number of Pages changes between PC Word 2007 and Mac Office 2008
I have a document that I would love to be able to work on both my laptop Mac
and also my desktop PC. The bulk of my work is on the PC because I have Adobe Acrobat installed there that will convert it to .pdf for publishing reasons. (The .pdf produced by microsoft has not been confirmed to work with the printers yet so I don't want to waste time experimenting). I want to be able to work on the document on my laptop Mac while out of the house. However, I found that my document grew by 10 pages when I moved it to my Mac. I checked all the margins, all the margins of the headers/footers. Nothing has changed as far as I can see except for the increase in the number of pages. The document has 360 pages on the PC and 370 on the Mac. Somewhere there must be a change in formatting between the two computers but it's not obvious to my naked eye. Am I the only one that moves between two platforms? Am I the only one encountering this problem and finding it an issue? Since I am publishing the document, the number of pages can't change as that will change the spine width . I have the same Adobe font installed on both computers but of course, the right format for the right computer. I asked this question on the Mac Office Forums but no one answered. This forum is much better at giving feedback. Hope someone can give me a hint as it would simplify my life a lot more! By the way, the number of pages increases between the two computers even though I haven't even touched the document yet. Thanks |
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Number of Pages changes between PC Word 2007 and Mac Office 2008
See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/TextReflow.htm.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "VK" wrote in message ... I have a document that I would love to be able to work on both my laptop Mac and also my desktop PC. The bulk of my work is on the PC because I have Adobe Acrobat installed there that will convert it to .pdf for publishing reasons. (The .pdf produced by microsoft has not been confirmed to work with the printers yet so I don't want to waste time experimenting). I want to be able to work on the document on my laptop Mac while out of the house. However, I found that my document grew by 10 pages when I moved it to my Mac. I checked all the margins, all the margins of the headers/footers. Nothing has changed as far as I can see except for the increase in the number of pages. The document has 360 pages on the PC and 370 on the Mac. Somewhere there must be a change in formatting between the two computers but it's not obvious to my naked eye. Am I the only one that moves between two platforms? Am I the only one encountering this problem and finding it an issue? Since I am publishing the document, the number of pages can't change as that will change the spine width . I have the same Adobe font installed on both computers but of course, the right format for the right computer. I asked this question on the Mac Office Forums but no one answered. This forum is much better at giving feedback. Hope someone can give me a hint as it would simplify my life a lot more! By the way, the number of pages increases between the two computers even though I haven't even touched the document yet. Thanks |
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Hi V.K.,
Are you setting both versions to use the same/equivalent PDF printer? Word takes cues from the printer driver on how to layout the document (i.e. it uses text reflow, not page layout parameters) so you may not be able to always achieve an exact match between versions, machines or editions on document layout. Word 2007 doesn't have the Word 2008 Publishing view and doesn't support all of the font/Open type features such as ligatures that Word:mac does. If you're using those advanced features, that can impact the move between the two products. Besides the margins be sure to check the page setup choices for auto paper resizing and for the sizes of space allowed for headers/footers. Check also the definitions for styles on both to see if they're the same and as far as line and character spacing and font size. Also see if Word for Windows is actually using the font you named by opening the document and then going to Office Button=Word Options=Advanced=Show document content and click on [Font Substitution] You may also want to check the compatability settings there. Setting a keyboard shortcut in Office Button=Word Options=Customize=Keyboard Shortcuts and under All Commands choose 'ToggleOptimizeForLayout' Each of these can make some small differences that could add up. Does Office 2007 'run' in a virtual machine on the Mac? I don't know if that would be another alternative to look into. =============== "VK" wrote in message ... I have a document that I would love to be able to work on both my laptop Mac and also my desktop PC. The bulk of my work is on the PC because I have Adobe Acrobat installed there that will convert it to .pdf for publishing reasons. (The .pdf produced by microsoft has not been confirmed to work with the printers yet so I don't want to waste time experimenting). I want to be able to work on the document on my laptop Mac while out of the house. However, I found that my document grew by 10 pages when I moved it to my Mac. I checked all the margins, all the margins of the headers/footers. Nothing has changed as far as I can see except for the increase in the number of pages. The document has 360 pages on the PC and 370 on the Mac. Somewhere there must be a change in formatting between the two computers but it's not obvious to my naked eye. Am I the only one that moves between two platforms? Am I the only one encountering this problem and finding it an issue? Since I am publishing the document, the number of pages can't change as that will change the spine width . I have the same Adobe font installed on both computers but of course, the right format for the right computer. I asked this question on the Mac Office Forums but no one answered. This forum is much better at giving feedback. Hope someone can give me a hint as it would simplify my life a lot more! By the way, the number of pages increases between the two computers even though I haven't even touched the document yet. Thanks -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Number of Pages changes between PC Word 2007 and Mac Office 20
Thank you for replying so promptly and with so much detail.
In order to convert to .pdf, I "print to the .pdf" driver. It's not a "real printer", is it? Forgive me my ignorance but I haven't actually printed out my document yet. I just need to convert it to .pdf. I "print to the Adobe driver" to convert to .pdf. How can I set my document to print to the same driver on both computers when it's not a real printer? I'm pretty sure my document is not using any advance features of Word 2007. It's a basic manuscript. I would like to work on it on my Mac and work on spelling and formatting details. I need to keep the manuscript to exactly 360 pages so it's useless to work on my Mac because the number of pages changes when I go back to my PC. I've already prepared the spine width of my book cover, so I don't want to do that all over again so I want to keep it to 360 pages always. I have check all margins, paper sizes set up in the printer, spaces for headers/footers. I will check my styles but that will be very tedious. Is there a way to print out all the styles I've used on one computer? That would streamline the process a great deal. Will the fonts take up the same amount of space on both computers? I'm using Adobe Garamond on both computers. I will double check the font usage in the document on both computers. Please explain what togglng to optimize layout will do? I had thought about running windows on my Mac but am running out of harddrive space as it is. Thanks for the suggestions. At least I know I've done my best to make it work. " |
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There is only a slim possibility of the documents being formatted
*identically* when opened on two different platforms. The chances of the available printer drivers - even the Adobe driver - being identical, let alone the font outlines used by the two systems, that discrepancies are almost inevitable. The reasons are covered at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm The Adobe 'printer' driver uses the print system to create a graphical representation of the document and can be considered as a true 'printer' driver that prints to file. Word uses the active printer driver to format the document. Set the Adobe driver as the active printer to allow the document to reformat to the capabilities of that driver. With luck the Mac version will be an accurate copy of the PC version and that will help enormously in overcoming the reformatting issue. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org V wrote: Thank you for replying so promptly and with so much detail. In order to convert to .pdf, I "print to the .pdf" driver. It's not a "real printer", is it? Forgive me my ignorance but I haven't actually printed out my document yet. I just need to convert it to .pdf. I "print to the Adobe driver" to convert to .pdf. How can I set my document to print to the same driver on both computers when it's not a real printer? I'm pretty sure my document is not using any advance features of Word 2007. It's a basic manuscript. I would like to work on it on my Mac and work on spelling and formatting details. I need to keep the manuscript to exactly 360 pages so it's useless to work on my Mac because the number of pages changes when I go back to my PC. I've already prepared the spine width of my book cover, so I don't want to do that all over again so I want to keep it to 360 pages always. I have check all margins, paper sizes set up in the printer, spaces for headers/footers. I will check my styles but that will be very tedious. Is there a way to print out all the styles I've used on one computer? That would streamline the process a great deal. Will the fonts take up the same amount of space on both computers? I'm using Adobe Garamond on both computers. I will double check the font usage in the document on both computers. Please explain what togglng to optimize layout will do? I had thought about running windows on my Mac but am running out of harddrive space as it is. Thanks for the suggestions. At least I know I've done my best to make it work. " |
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