Less on a page in Word 2004 than Word X

[jamaurer]

I recently installed Office 2004 on my Mac PowerBook G4. I have been
using Office X. I opend a 150 page document in Word 2004 and all pages
contain less text than before although nothing has been changed. I
checked and the font is the same, the font size is the same, the page
size is the same, the margins are the same, the page setup is the same,
the paper size is the same, the scale is the same. I'm not sure what
to do at this point.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[Tim Murray]

I recently installed Office 2004 on my Mac PowerBook G4. I have been
using Office X. I opend a 150 page document in Word 2004 and all pages
contain less text than before although nothing has been changed. I
checked and the font is the same, the font size is the same, the page
size is the same, the margins are the same, the page setup is the same,
the paper size is the same, the scale is the same. I'm not sure what
to do at this point.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

I know that Mac Office treats line spacing (or, leading) differently than
Windows when you're not using exact line spacing (the Mac is tighter between
Mac 2004 and Windows 2000). In fact, there is a slight difference even when
using exact, but it amounts to only about 2 points of space in about 6 inches
of text.

Perhaps there is a difference between Mac the v.X and 2004 as well.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I recently installed Office 2004 on my Mac PowerBook G4. I have been

I know that Mac Office treats line spacing (or, leading) differently than
Windows when you're not using exact line spacing (the Mac is tighter between
Mac 2004 and Windows 2000). In fact, there is a slight difference even when
using exact, but it amounts to only about 2 points of space in about 6 inches
of text.

Perhaps there is a difference between Mac the v.X and 2004 as well.

They did things to Word 2004 to try to bring it in line with Windows on this
issue, since so many people using Word are looking for compatibility with
WinWord. I think previous discussion of this concluded that people who want
page breaks in the same place in Word X and Word 2004 are just screwed and
will have to keep running Word X. (you can run both programs side by side,
though I keep my Word X in a different user account)

Although, I'm not sure anyone tested the results of using "exactly 24pt"
spacing instead of "double". Might be worth a try.

150pps at a .edu address--is this a thesis or some such? Using Word's
features for Table of Contents, etc, makes this a non-issue as it can just
update the page numbers....

If you just need it for reference/sending around, create a PDF out of Word X
so that you don't have to worry about it in the future.

 

[Clive Huggan]

They did things to Word 2004 to try to bring it in line with Windows on this
issue, since so many people using Word are looking for compatibility with
WinWord. I think previous discussion of this concluded that people who want
page breaks in the same place in Word X and Word 2004 are just screwed and
will have to keep running Word X. (you can run both programs side by side,
though I keep my Word X in a different user account)

Although, I'm not sure anyone tested the results of using "exactly 24pt"
spacing instead of "double". Might be worth a try.

150pps at a .edu address--is this a thesis or some such? Using Word's
features for Table of Contents, etc, makes this a non-issue as it can just
update the page numbers....

If you just need it for reference/sending around, create a PDF out of Word X
so that you don't have to worry about it in the future.

And if this situation is likely to recur, take a look at the notes about
creating "minimum maintenance" documents (i.e., ones that you don't have to
re-format when they move between computers, different Word versions etc) in
appendix A of "Bend Word to Your Will", a free download from the Word MVPs'
website (http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Bend/BendWord.htm).

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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[Paul Berkowitz]

They did things to Word 2004 to try to bring it in line with Windows on this
issue, since so many people using Word are looking for compatibility with
WinWord. I think previous discussion of this concluded that people who want
page breaks in the same place in Word X and Word 2004 are just screwed and
will have to keep running Word X. (you can run both programs side by side,
though I keep my Word X in a different user account)

Although, I'm not sure anyone tested the results of using "exactly 24pt"
spacing instead of "double". Might be worth a try.

150pps at a .edu address--is this a thesis or some such? Using Word's
features for Table of Contents, etc, makes this a non-issue as it can just
update the page numbers....

If you just need it for reference/sending around, create a PDF out of Word X
so that you don't have to worry about it in the future.

I don't think its real cause is "compatibility with Word Windows", although
they may indeed be doing that better now. The reason is that Word X used the
old (inherited from OS 8/9) QuickDraw frameworks for text layout, whereas
Word 2004 uses Apple's new ATSUI (Unicode) frameworks for text drawing. All
sorts of things to do with spacing. kerning, etc. are different as a result.
In additions we get Unicode (i.e. far more languages and characters) and
better compatibility with WinWord, which I'm sure they aimed for. But
ultimately it's really compatibility with Mac OS X that has most affected
the changes.

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