Table in Word Document not carrying over to PC users

[tomquackery]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I use Word 2008 to create invoices that I usually email to people. The invoices contains a table. I save them as a Word 97-2004 .doc document. I send them using Entourage encoding for Windows Base64/MIME.

So I think I have done everything in my power to ensure that they will arrive safely at the other end on a PC. But they don't. The table is almost entirely missing...I say almost because some of the rows appear, but not all.

Other documents I send seem to print a number of blank pages so that, for example, a 2 page document (the first page of which is also, as it happens, a table) becomes 11 pages.

Any ideas as ot what I am doing wrong? Or is it simply the case that despite it being 2008 there are still compatibility issues between Macs and PCs?

 

[John McGhie]

Email ME a copy of that document (off-list) and I will take a look for you.

I suspect the table is corrupted.

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I use Word 2008 to create invoices that I usually email to people. The
invoices contains a table. I save them as a Word 97-2004 .doc document. I send
them using Entourage encoding for Windows Base64/MIME.

So I think I have done everything in my power to ensure that they will arrive
safely at the other end on a PC. But they don't. The table is almost entirely
missing...I say almost because some of the rows appear, but not all.

Other documents I send seem to print a number of blank pages so that, for
example, a 2 page document (the first page of which is also, as it happens, a
table) becomes 11 pages.

Any ideas as ot what I am doing wrong? Or is it simply the case that despite
it being 2008 there are still compatibility issues between Macs and PCs?

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[marissamarco]

Was there a resolution to this problem? I have been having the same
issue, but flipped -- from a PC word doc to a Mac word doc.

 

[John McGhie]

No. There was nothing wrong with his document when I looked at it.

(And the rude little person didn't even write back to say thanks...)

What software versions are you running?

Was there a resolution to this problem? I have been having the same
issue, but flipped -- from a PC word doc to a Mac word doc.

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]