2008 Mac and Windows compatibility issue?

[Charles]

Using Word 2008 for Macintosh, I received a Word for Windows (97-2004)
..doc from a client, edited it and sent it back to the client, who added
some new changes and sent it back to me again. I saved the document as a
new file, accepted all the changes, made some new ones and sent it back
again, etc., and repeated this process about five times in total.

When I got the last file from the client, I accepted all the changes,
then used Compare Documents to show all the cumulative changes with the
original document.

I saved the new file as a Word 97-2004 Document (.doc), as I had been
doing all along, but this time the client couldn't open the file. The
only way I could get them to view it was by opening the file in Word
2004, doing the Compare Documents there and saving that file.

Is this a bug in Word 2008 or am I doing something wrong?

Charles

 

[Charles]

Using Word 2008 for Macintosh

I forgot to add that I am using OS X 10.4.11.

Charles

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Charles:

This is a bug in the Track Changes mechanism of Word 2008.

If you have copies of the document BEFORE and AFTER you accepted the
changes, please zip each one up and send it to me as two separate emails (so
you don't blow my email storage).

I will forward them on to the guy in Microsoft who is trying to fix this.

Cheers

I forgot to add that I am using OS X 10.4.11.

Charles

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[Charles]

This is a bug in the Track Changes mechanism of Word 2008.

If you have copies of the document BEFORE and AFTER you accepted the
changes, please zip each one up and send it to me as two separate emails (so
you don't blow my email storage).

I will forward them on to the guy in Microsoft who is trying to fix this.

Thanks for letting me know that it is a bug. I am glad I didn't toss
2004--I was anticipating something just like this.

Also thanks for the offer, but unfortunately these are confidential
client files that I can't release. (I may have others later that I can.)

Charles