Lars-Eric
Sun Jul 06 08:34:26 CDT 2003
Denise,
There is one more issue and that is documents that are created as forms
using tables, created in Word 97, may cause Word XP SP2 to insert page
breakes randomly in the table. That means a one page Word 97 document can
suddenly become several pages in XP. This problem was introduced by SP2 and
should not occure without SP2.
We have a hotfix from Microsoft for that problem that we distribute to our
clients that faces this problem. (We had a 'fight' with MS before they
provided us with a hotfix.) It seems almost impossible to get that fix from
Microsoft's public site but if you have a Premier Support contract you can
get the fix from the MS Premier Support Site. If MS will release another SP
for Office XP the hotfix will be included in that SP.
BTW, the problem does not excist in Word 2003.
Regards,
Lars-Eric
"Denise Z" <dzivolich@cox.net> skrev i meddelandet
news:0a5b01c341a3$5f667250$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Yes Andy, you will have a few issues. I wish someone had
> warned me about all of these before I had to figure them
> out for myself:
>
> 1) If the documents use heading or non-heading numbered
> styles, you will need to open each doc, click on the first
> numbering level, choose bullets and numbering, customize
> and make sure that the tab space after is showing either
> 0" or the location of where the style has an intentional
> tab setting. This is how MS got around the Jason tabs
> thing. The Jason tabs (so named because like Friday the
> 13th, the bad automatic tabs just keep coming back), is
> not really fixed, but just rerouted to this location for
> the user to have more control.
>
> You will need to do this for each level and each style in
> the docs.
>
> If you have any templates adding numbering styles to
> documents, make sure you revise the numbering template as
> stated above. I actually had to use the numbering macros
> I created and start a new fresh doc, then save it over the
> old template in order for the styles to behave properly
> without Jason tabbing me to death.
>
> 2) If you are doing any programming moving to the next
> headers and footers, you will definitely need to revamp
> the VBA code. Go ahead and try it first, but you more
> than likely will have errors.
>
> 3) If you are doing any graphics insertion into any
> headers/footers, you need to actually allow the user to
> see that portion of the execution. You can turn off
> screen updating immediately thereafter, but if you don't
> turn it on for the graphics, you will spin your wheels re-
> doing code forever wondering why the graphics is winding
> up in the document and not the header...
>
> 4) XP does not handle a lot of tables in a document well.
> If you are using tables in the footers in long documents
> to provide better spacing control (other than pleadings),
> take them out.
>
> 5) XP doesn't handle a lot of bells and whistles
> functionality well. If you have a document with a table
> of contents and an index of some sort, make sure that
> either the table or the index, but not both, is utilizing
> hyperlinking. If you leave hyperlinking on one of them
> and not the other the docs behave much better.
>
> 6) There is a little nuisance setting in Tools, Options,
> Save tab that refers to Disable features after Word 97.
> If you try to use nested tables, or other formatting
> features that were not an option in Word 97, Word will
> change the formatting in your document when you save it.
> I have turned off this feature on my user's normal
> templates. However, if you plan to email docs back and
> forth with people who are still using Word 97, then you
> might want to leave it on.
>
> That's about all I can come up with at the moment. Hope
> this helps.
>
> Denise
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi Andy,
> >
> >Forwards compatibility should not be a problem as 97 and
> XP both use the
> >same VBA except for enhancements that have been
> incorporated in XP.
> >
> >Please respond to the newsgroups for the benefit of
> others who may be
> >interested.
> >
> >Hope this helps
> >Doug Robbins - Word MVP
> >"Andy Newland" <ANewland@BopndPearce.com> wrote in message
> >news:49a901c34150$f1226c60$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I work for a legal firm that is planning a roll out of
> XP
> >> in the near future. We have many Word97 documents which
> >> act as templates and make extensive use of VBA. I have 2
> >> questions
> >>
> >> 1. Do I have to convert these 97 files or will this be
> >> done automatically by XP?
> >>
> >> 2. Are there likely to be any problems with the VBA
> >> elements of the documents.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Andy Newland
> >
> >
> >.
> >