Easing the Transition to Word 2007

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

tim — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:25:36 GMT

Thanks Jonathan - nice explanation

can you link up the whitepaper please?

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

wrdblog — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:17:16 GMT

Reposting with links (not sure what happened there...sorry about that).

-Jonathan

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

Stefan — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:28:13 GMT

can you repost the "Migrating to the 2007 Office System.docx" document, this one does not give you a brilliant user experience ;-)

Opening the document it says that the document is corrupted

Open XML links for 06-08-2007

Doug Mahugh — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:31:22 GMT

Preeti Krishna has announced new drops of the Excel and PowerPoint converters for ODF 1.0 formats over

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

Stefan KZVB — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:46:47 GMT

Jonathan,

do you remember my comment on Word 2000 opening Word 2007-docx's with Times New Roman instead of Arial? ( http://pschmid.net/office2007/forums/viewtopic.php?t=161 )

I've hoped this issue would be fixed with one of the following updates but it isn't:

- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936695/ (Update for Compatibility Pack)

- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934173/ (This update fixes conversion issues that occur with Word documents.)

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

Stefan KZVB — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:59:04 GMT

It's me again with one more issue:

On state-of-the art dual core client machines with 2GB of RAM Word 2007 German on Win XP is reacting quite slow when scrolling through documents with the mouse wheel or typing text.

However you can experience a big speed improvement if you disable automatic spell checking! Doesn't spell checking happen in the background on Word 2007 so the user does not experience a slow-down when working with the document?

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

wrdblog — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:47:59 GMT

Is anyone else seeing the corruption issue Stefan is seeing? I've opened the file on three machines and it seems to be working.

Stefan - Could you try to open it on another machine and let me know if you see the same issue?

-Jonathan

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

Stefan KZVB — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:47:09 GMT

Jonathan, I've tried it right now with Word 2002 (!) on my home machine and it opened ok... But there's also an inactive parallel installation of Office 2007 B2TR on it. At work it happened on each of several machines with Office 2000.

Since I'm on holiday I've got no access to my test lab @work the next weeks. So it would be really great if some readers would open the example documents from http://pschmid.net/office2007/forums/viewtopic.php?t=161 and post if they experience the wrong font problem as well (including Word versions installed on machine & language).

Thank you very much!!

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

Francis — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:48:08 GMT

Speaking of fonts, is there any way to force Word to embed common system fonts in PDFs? The PDFs I create with Word are getting rejected for printing because Arial is not embedded.

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

trina — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:23:34 GMT

can somebody please tell me how I can save as in the new word and excell, it's driving me crazy to have to find my docs then copy and paste before I can overwrite.

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

David Nolan — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:44:29 GMT

I use Word 2002 SP 3. Since installing the Compatibility Pack I am now experiencing difficulty saving any Office document. When I click on "save as" the Save Document box opens relatively quickly, but when I click on "save in" I experience an inordinate delay before the drop down containing the folder list appears. Is there a known conflict between the Compatibility Pack and the version of Office I am running?

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

Stefan KZVB — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:09:00 GMT

@trina: There's some big round button in the upper left corner of the window. Try it out. If it flashes you've never pressed it yet.

@David: I don't think it has to do with the compatibility pack, since I had the problem before. Please check if there are any hard readable CDs or drives mounted or anything else stops windows to get information about the drives and folders. Disable other tools installed to find out.

Question about Mail Merge

David Morf — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:49:37 GMT

Hi,

I got a different question, but I didn't found a better place to post it.

I'm dealing with the problem of using a SharePoint contact list with the mail merge functionalities in Word 2007 respectively Word 2003.

I'd like to get the information directly from the contact list in SharePoint. What is the best way to do it in Word 2007 and Word 2003?

thx for your help

regards,

david

Open XML in Science and Nature; Deploying Office 2007; and more…

Brian Jones: Open XML Formats — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:06:07 GMT

Here are a few interesting links I came across this week: Open XML in Science and Nature - Murray Sargent

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

hAl — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:42:39 GMT

What would really ease the use of Office 2007 would be rolling out the compatibility pack in some kind of Office service pack so that the new document forat is easier to share with others.

Is there any plan to do so in the near future ?

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Victoria — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:53:18 GMT

I am beginning to use the developer tab in Word. Why isn't there a preset content control for a mail merge? I am trying to create a template that will use content controls to draw from an Outlook contact list. Is there currently any features in Word 2007 that will allow me to do this?

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Reed Gauge — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:07:24 GMT

Below info in interest of removing Trial; also

to advise shoppers to beware that your old version of Office may be removed without your

prior knowledge. Any workarounds for deleting

- as MS requested - Office 2007 trial. The

interface is not ready for prime time as I

tested it for a major studio.

MS OFC Pro 2007 Trial

Version 12.0.4518.1014

Product ID: 81605-302-2402231-65701

On CP/Removal, Setup Error Message:

"The language of this installation package is not supported by your system."

Question about Word 2003

Bob Coffey — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:14:29 GMT

When you place a watermark in a document, you get a dialog box that gives you several choices. Among them are a number of standard text watermarks eg: Draft, COPY etc.

Is there a way to add other choices to that dropdown?

re: Easing the Transition to Word 2007

annoyed microsoft user — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:47:37 GMT

I have Microsoft Office 2007 and I run into a problem where while openeing .doc files created in Office 2003, the document is obscured.

It is a fax letterhead and instead of printing everything it only shows and prints the company name and address which is normally at the bottom. when you print if the company name is sheared by the top of the page and nothing else is present.

wayne [ dot ] marsh [ at ] caribousoftware [ dot ] com

Helpful New Word Ribbon Tab

Noticias externas — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:55:56 GMT

I just discovered a very cool resource to further ease the transition to Word 2007 . It’s a small (622KB

New Ribbon

Greg Randall's Small Business Blog — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:24:20 GMT

Reading the blogs for Microsoft Word 2007 I ran across this entry from a Office Word program manager