Compatibility in Word 2007

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Brian Jones: Open XML Formats — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:54:49 GMT

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re: Compatibility in Word 2007

Jake — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:18:42 GMT

When a 2007 document has 2007-only features, and you down-convert it, the features will dissappear, I assume. If you re-convert it again, do the features come back, or are they lost forever?

Thanks, Jake

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Pam — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:31:42 GMT

I own a transcription service, and we do all of our work in Word. We also use Abacus (line-counting program), Shorthand (word expander), and Spellex Plus (medical/RX/veterinary spellchecker) when we transcribe. We do use templates and macros as well. If we switch to Office 2007, will we still be able to use all of these programs?

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re: Compatibility in Word 2007

wrdblog — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:10:43 GMT

Jake that is a great question that will be answered in future posts. The quick answer is that some features will come back when converted back to an Open XML Format.

Pam you should be able to still use those programs you listed. Although we have changed our UI for Office 2007, we still allow for older add-ins to work properly. With Office 2007, you will still be able to open and use older templates and macros.

Zeyad Rajabi (MS)

Compatibility in Word 2007 – Part II

The Microsoft Office Word Team's Blog — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:55:15 GMT

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re: Compatibility in Word 2007

Carl Scarlett — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:12:04 GMT

We're currently having difficulties with our Word Add-In in Word 2007. The menus don't seem to appear, and our alterred context menus don't appear either.

We can see that the Add-In is "installed" through Word Options.

Are we supposed to see (at least) our main menu on the ribbon somewhere?

re: Compatibility in Word 2007

wrdblog — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:03:00 GMT

Hi Carl,

It’s difficult for me to assess what is causing your add-in menu to not show up in the add-in ribbon without looking at the add-in itself. Jensen Harris talks about how older add-ins still work with Office 2007, even with the new UI. Please reference

http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/10/27/485597.aspx

Thanks,

Zeyad Rajabi (MS)

re: Compatibility in Word 2007

Bruce D'Arcus — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:17:32 GMT

Re: Jake's question on round-tripping, this is critical. I consider it a major bug that you'll be flattening the new citation field to plain text when opening the files in previous versions. And I'm not seeing any technical reason why this must be the case.

re: Compatibility in Word 2007

wrdblog — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:37:23 GMT

Hi Bruce,

I will talk more about Word 2007 features that are not compatible with older file formats in a future post. The main reason citations and bibliography are converted to static text on down-converting is because the older file formats cannot save the necessary data. Our limitations on what we can save when down-converting is really dependant on the file format. Unfortunately, we cannot save certain type of data in a binary doc file and expect users of Word 97-2003 to access that data.

Thanks,

Zeyad Rajabi (MS)

re: Compatibility in Word 2007

wrdblog — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:37:17 GMT

Carl - Let me know if you want to send me your add-in so I can help debug what the issue you are seeing is.

Zeyad Rajabi(MS)

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