Compatibility Checker Office 2007

[Scott Williams]

We are going through a major deployment of Office 2007 and have come across,
what we perceive, to be a problem. We are forcing Office 2007 to save in
legacy format to allow full compatibility with Office XP users during the
deployment process. However, when saving a file in 2007 originally created in
XP you can bet your bottom dollar that the compatibility checker will fire up
telling you that some table, or some cell may experience a 'minor loss of
fidelity' or some such.
Now this will engender a sense of mistrust as far as I can tell as the
average user will not really understand that this message can pretty much be
ignored, so may log support calls left right and centre when it isn't needed.
Also, it's downright frustrating to see this pop up all the time! We don't
want to turn it off because we still need it to tell a user when a 'major'
problem may occur.
As far as I can tell, compatibility checker groups into Minor and Major
issues. Which leads to my question - can we 'fiddle' with its settings to
force it to only display when it sees a major problem and not display when it
sees only a minor one? No joy from MS directly yet, so though someone here
may have an answer.

 

[Beth Melton]

I haven't encountered this ability although that doesn't mean it can't be
done. BUT programmatically, you can only show/execute the dialog box and,
depending on the dialog box, control the state of visible options. The
internal functionality is not exposed in the Object model. IOW, it's very
unlikely you can 'fiddle' with the settings.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
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Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx