Office Mac to Windows Compatibility Issues

External Since: May 22, 2004 Posts: 947

Hi Kelly:

That "sounds" as if the selection may have extended to include the spaces
while you were editing, so that the spaces got tracked as a deletion.

You would need to get the document back to verify that.

There is also a "missing spaces" bug we are tracking on Word 2008. It
produces a very similar outcome without tracked changes being involved.

In either case, there's nothing we can do but wait. Word 2008 is very
buggy. There's an update due around the middle of March. That will fix a
few issues, maybe this one will be among them.

In the meantime, do your professional work in Office 2004 if you have it,
and wait for Microsoft to squish its bugs.

Cheers

On 1/03/08 6:35 AM, in article ee886a1.39.DeleteThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Kelly"
<Kelly> wrote:

> I am also experiencing a compatibility issue. A colleague sent me a Word 2007
> .docx file for editing. I edited it in Word 2008 for Mac, and left Track
> Changes on so he could see my edits.
>
> When he opens it in Word 2007 again, the spaces between words are missing in
> areas where editing has occurred.
>
> This sounds a bit like a display bug I found mentioned on this site where
> embedded documents don't display properly, but this is not an embedded
> document.
>
> It's a very disappointing outcome. As a copyeditor, I bought Office 2008 for
> the express purpose of collaborating with Office 2007 users on .docx files.
>
> Does anyone know of fixes or workarounds?

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External Since: Mar 02, 2008 Posts: 1

I am also having problems between Mac 2004 and Win 2003
I am sent a Word 2003 document for updating in 2004 for Mac. There is an embedded object that I double click to open a small Excel spreadsheet into which I enter numbers. On opening the spreadsheet, the object is automatically enlarged which throws the right-hand end into the right margin, so that is unprintable.
What is worse, I close the Word document, saving it in 2004 for Mac and then email it as an attachment back to the originator using Mail. They reopen in 2003 for windows, and can see the whole document including the amended object, but when they print it, the object area is blank. If they Preview the document, the numbers in the object are greyed. I dont know if this is the result of emailing the doc back and forwards, or a setting in either of our Words is wrong.