Problem working between Office 2008 for Macs & Office 2007 for Win

[Vanessa]

I have a PC (and use Office 2007 Professional Plus) and work on documents
with people who have Macs (Office 2008 for Macs). Every time they edit a
document with tracked changes, it comes back with sporadic spaces missing.
With PowerPoint, the documents come back unformatted. This is making it
almost impossible to collaborate - does anyone know how to fix this? We all
have our updates from Microsoft Updater automatically downloaded every week,
so that doesn't seem to be the solution to the problem.

Thanks!

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Vanessa,

If you're using the compatibility report feature and common fonts you may want to also review this page from Office:mac 2008 help on
the recommended best practices between the Windows and Mac versions of Office v12 (2007 Windows and 2008 mac).
http://microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?target=7acce321-36fb-48d6-8c76-12cb3a0063ee1033&clr=99-4-0

[not sure why it would refer only to the Office 2008 test drive in the heading]

I've crossposted this reply to the mac.office discussion group as well as the folks there may also have some insights into having
seen these particular cases with the feature set you mentioned.

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I have a PC (and use Office 2007 Professional Plus) and work on documents
with people who have Macs (Office 2008 for Macs). Every time they edit a
document with tracked changes, it comes back with sporadic spaces missing.
With PowerPoint, the documents come back unformatted. This is making it
almost impossible to collaborate - does anyone know how to fix this? We all
have our updates from Microsoft Updater automatically downloaded every week,
so that doesn't seem to be the solution to the problem.

Thanks! <<
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*