Characters lost when opening Word 2008 .docx in Word 2007 or 2003.

[puhis]

I’m supposed to make a PDF with bookmarks out of my master thesis. When printing to PDF or saving to PDF, Word 2008 does’t create bookmarks and the generated pdf is devided to multible pdf’s from every section break.

So I figured that I’d make the PDF on windows side using Word 2008 or 2003. But when opening the .docx – created in Word 2008 – with Word 2007 or 2003 I found that approx. 30-40% of all of the SPACE Characters are missing. It’s a little bit annoying when showing that kind formatted master thesis to your supervising professor.

Does anyone know any kind of solution to this? Either to print proper PDF out of Word 2008, or way to open .docx mac file on Word 2007 without character losses?

Thanks

 

[John McGhie]

Microsoft is tracking this issue. They would appreciate all the information
you can provide.

For example: Are you sure the spaces are "missing" in Windows, or have they
simply been set to a very small space?

Can you zip and email me the Word 2008 file (or a sample of it) so I can see
exactly what is going on?

Cheers

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[ottawadave]

Two of my children are doing online courses. I recently upgraded their systems to Office 2008. They have been saving their documents to the previous format (.doc instead of .docx). Their teachers are running on Windows. In both cases they have seen some missing spaces (when they mark up the document and send it back to us, we can then see the missing spaces)

Now this is interesting. My oldest was participating in an online classroom forum in First Class and decided to copy and post some text from her document into a forum message. While pasting into a TextEdit document was fine, it was not find when pasting into First Class (doing a past special as plain text did work).

There's definitely something odd going on here and it would really be nice to have this fixed soon.

Both systems are running Leopard, Office 2008, both Intel Core duo's.

 

[John McGhie]

There's actually nothing wrong with the "document".

This is a "ligatures" bug that has been revealed by OS 10.5.

There's a patch on the way to fix it.

Cheers

Two of my children are doing online courses. I recently upgraded their systems
to Office 2008. They have been saving their documents to the previous format
(.doc instead of .docx). Their teachers are running on Windows. In both cases
they have seen some missing spaces (when they mark up the document and send it
back to us, we can then see the missing spaces)

Now this is interesting. My oldest was participating in an online classroom
forum in First Class and decided to copy and post some text from her document
into a forum message. While pasting into a TextEdit document was fine, it was
not find when pasting into First Class (doing a past special as plain text did
work).

There's definitely something odd going on here and it would really be nice to
have this fixed soon.

Both systems are running Leopard, Office 2008, both Intel Core duo's.

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Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia

 

[Kelly]

I am having a similar problem. When is the patch due?

 

[John McGhie]

There is "a" service release due on March 11. They have not told us what's
in it. I am hoping the fix for this issue will be among the contents ‹ it's
a fairly major update.

I am having a similar problem. When is the patch due?

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[Ro]

I'm having the exact same problem after the 12.0.1 upgrade. Haven't tried the SP1 yet. I hope it was fixed there, though I haven't seen anything in the release notes that refers to this. It's quite strange because it only happens with some of my documents (noteably the longer research ones).

The work around I've found is that if I save the document on Word 2008 as a .doc file rather than a .docx then Word 2003 and Word 2007 read it correctly.

 

[Ro]

No, the problem persists with the 12.1 upgrade.

 

[John McGhie]

Right. They fixed the Small Caps bug, but not the missing spaces bug.

Please use Help>Send Feedback to encourage them to try harder in the next
update.

Thanks for the report.

Cheers

No, the problem persists with the 12.1 upgrade.

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