edited text runs together

[noarch]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

I'm editing a document in Word for Mac 2008, and when I send the document to the proofreader who's using Word 2007 on a PC, a lot of the text runs together. For instance, spaces between words are omitted and it looks like I didn't do a very good job of editing!

Any ideas?

 

[John McGhie]

Yes: You are missing an update to Word 2008.

Run Software Update at least twice, until it stops offering you stuff

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

I'm editing a document in Word for Mac 2008, and when I send the document to
the proofreader who's using Word 2007 on a PC, a lot of the text runs
together. For instance, spaces between words are omitted and it looks like I
didn't do a very good job of editing!

Any ideas?

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[noarch]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, Software Update tells me that there is no new software available for my computer, so it looks like I'm up to date. DO you know if there's any other way to check for new software? Or if there's something else that could be causing this problem?

Thanks!

 

[Phillip Jones]

Would removing and rebuilding of the MS Fonts Cache help.

Sometime fonts in the cache are in reference to older versions of fonts
replaced in update. I've forgotten how you do that in word 2004/2008. in
previous you could open find file look for font cache locate the one for
MS and trash and empty then reopen Word or Excel and it would rebuild
the list according what now on the computer.

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, Software Update tells me that there is no new software available for my computer, so it looks like I'm up to date. DO you know if there's any other way to check for new software? Or if there's something else that could be causing this problem?

Thanks!

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[John McGhie]

There's nothing else that could be causing this problem, that I know of.

It is totally characteristic of the bug that was fixed in the 12.1.0 update.
You could go to the Microsoft website and download the 12.1.2 patch and run
it from your local drive. But I suspect that will do no good.

You're in OS 10.4, so it's not "ligatures" in 10.5.

Send me a sample document and I will see if I can see anything else that
might be wrong.

Cheers

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, Software Update tells me that there is no
new software available for my computer, so it looks like I'm up to date. DO
you know if there's any other way to check for new software? Or if there's
something else that could be causing this problem?

Thanks!

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[CyberTaz]

Hi Noah -

Just to clarify: *Software Update* is the Mac OS feature that checks for
updates to OS X & Apple software *only* ‹ despite its deceptive name it does
not check for updates to any other "software".

In any of the Office apps go to Help> Check for Updates in order to get
updates for Office. It's also a good idea to set it to check automatically
at least once a month. Keep in mind, though, that it only checks on launch
so if you leave the programs running 24/7 it will never notify you of
available updates even if set to Automatically check.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Thanks Bob:

Noah did send me a sample (which I enjoyed very much -- when I first looked
at it, I thought it was one of our work documents, because it's about the
same things we work with every day...).

Except that ours are nowhere near as pretty as Noah's

Anyway: This was a classic "spacing" bug, it seems that update 12.1.1 had
not applied correctly for him. He nuked it from orbit and started again.

Finders crossed...

Cheers

Hi Noah -

Just to clarify: *Software Update* is the Mac OS feature that checks for
updates to OS X & Apple software *only* ‹ despite its deceptive name it does
not check for updates to any other "software".

In any of the Office apps go to Help> Check for Updates in order to get
updates for Office. It's also a good idea to set it to check automatically
at least once a month. Keep in mind, though, that it only checks on launch
so if you leave the programs running 24/7 it will never notify you of
available updates even if set to Automatically check.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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