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Word 2003 - Losing formatting from Word 2002 document
After a migration from MS Office 2002 to MS Office 2003, when opening a
Word 2003 which has been set with the Track Change option to set changes, when accepting all the changes in Word 2003 the formatting is incorrect including double characters and extra characters in the text. I have tried reinstallation of MS Office 2003, thinking that something was missed in the original installation. Then, I went to update.microsoft.com and updated all updates which had to do with MS Word which displayed, but the problem persists. Another coworker who accepts the changes in Word 2002 can view the document perfectly. There are many documents with the track change option set in Word 2002 which have this problem. Please respond with any suggestions to this bulletin board. Thanks, PCScholar |
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Hi ?B?UENTY2hvbGFy?=,
I can't recall having ever heard of this behavior, before. Nor of many problems between Word 2002/2003 and track changes (the functionality really wasn't changed appreciably between the two versions). Here are some ideas to try: 1. If you hold down CTRL when booting Word (to go into Safe Mode), then open such a document and accept all the changes, do you still see the same result, or is it more as you'd expect? 2. If you first save such a document to XML, close, re-open the XML, save as a document, close, re-open the new document and accept all the changes: does it behave as it should? 3. If you have any document management or anti-virus software running, try deactivating it, then start Word, open such a document and accept the changes. Any difference? After a migration from MS Office 2002 to MS Office 2003, when opening a Word 2003 which has been set with the Track Change option to set changes, when accepting all the changes in Word 2003 the formatting is incorrect including double characters and extra characters in the text. I have tried reinstallation of MS Office 2003, thinking that something was missed in the original installation. Then, I went to update.microsoft.com and updated all updates which had to do with MS Word which displayed, but the problem persists. Another coworker who accepts the changes in Word 2002 can view the document perfectly. There are many documents with the track change option set in Word 2002 which have this problem. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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I'm having the same problem (discovered after sending a million dollar
proposal to a client!!!) - accepting changes and saving results in corruption of header formatting. My answers to your questions: 1. Saving and reopening while in Safe Mode results in the same corruption. 2. Saving as XML and opening that alone results in the corruption. 3. My machine is running lean and mean (no doc mgmt software, anti-virus, firewalls, etc.) on my office LAN. Regards, Scott Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote: Hi ?B?UENTY2hvbGFy?=, I can't recall having ever heard of this behavior, before. Nor of many problems between Word 2002/2003 and track changes (the functionality really wasn't changed appreciably between the two versions). Here are some ideas to try: 1. If you hold down CTRL when booting Word (to go into Safe Mode), then open such a document and accept all the changes, do you still see the same result, or is it more as you'd expect? 2. If you first save such a document to XML, close, re-open the XML, save as a document, close, re-open the new document and accept all the changes: does it behave as it should? 3. If you have any document management or anti-virus software running, try deactivating it, then start Word, open such a document and accept the changes. Any difference? After a migration from MS Office 2002 to MS Office 2003, when opening a Word 2003 which has been set with the Track Change option to set changes, when accepting all the changes in Word 2003 the formatting is incorrect including double characters and extra characters in the text. I have tried reinstallation of MS Office 2003, thinking that something was missed in the original installation. Then, I went to update.microsoft.com and updated all updates which had to do with MS Word which displayed, but the problem persists. Another coworker who accepts the changes in Word 2002 can view the document perfectly. There are many documents with the track change option set in Word 2002 which have this problem. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi Scott,
I'm having the same problem (discovered after sending a million dollar proposal to a client!!!) - accepting changes and saving results in corruption of header formatting. Do you get any more information on what's actually going wrong? How many sections in this document (how many different headers/footers)? What does the particular header that "goes bad" contain? If you first accept all changes in the header, then save, does that cause any problems? And if you then accept all other changes? If you copy/paste each section's contents into a new document, recreating the sections (and headers and footers) as you go, does the problem occur in the new document, as well? My answers to your questions: 1. Saving and reopening while in Safe Mode results in the same corruption. 2. Saving as XML and opening that alone results in the corruption. 3. My machine is running lean and mean (no doc mgmt software, anti-virus, firewalls, etc.) on my office LAN. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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