Technical Manuals

[New22003]

I used to use MS Office 2000. I create technical manuals by using
Publisher to layout pictures, text and tech drawings created with draw in
2000. I would then select the whole page in publisher and copy it into Word
where I could print or PDF a manual. Now we have upgraded to MS Office 2003 I
have several problems: - 1. I can no longer access my old diagrams created
with Draw - MS offers a fix using Draw98 but this is not compatible with
drawings created in 2000. 2. When I copy my Publisher pages into Word they
are no longer lined up correctly.

Can anyone suggest a solution as I have loads of manuals already created in
2000 and need to take pages from them to create new manuals in 2003 and
nothing seems to work anymore!!

 

[Jezebel]

Reinstall Office 2000.

 

[New22003]

Reinstall Office 2000.






Yes I have done that but it seems a backward step and I've wasted my money buying MS 2003! Is there no way forward?

 

[Jezebel]

Why did you buy W2003? You had something that worked for you, and now you
don't ...


However, taking your problems individually --

1. Have you tried installing MS Draw from your W2000 disks?

2. What's actually going wrong with your Publisher files? -- misalignment
sounds like you're maybe using slightly different fonts or printer. However
this is likely to be a long-term problem whatever you do. As you've just
discovered the hard way, using Publisher to create inserts for Word
documents was a *bad* decision, and it's now come back to haunt you.

3. If you have acceptable PDFs of your manuals, try opening them in Acrobat
on your new set-up and saving as Word. Might work for some of them.

 

[New22003]

Why did you buy W2003? You had something that worked for you, and now you
don't ...


However, taking your problems individually --

1. Have you tried installing MS Draw from your W2000 disks?

2. What's actually going wrong with your Publisher files? -- misalignment
sounds like you're maybe using slightly different fonts or printer. However
this is likely to be a long-term problem whatever you do. As you've just
discovered the hard way, using Publisher to create inserts for Word
documents was a *bad* decision, and it's now come back to haunt you.

3. If you have acceptable PDFs of your manuals, try opening them in Acrobat
on your new set-up and saving as Word. Might work for some of them.










How do I install draw from w2000 cd?

I am asking these questions on behalf of a.n. other who made the original
decisions.

Upgraded everyone in the office to MS Office 2003 pro because they were
using various versions / illegal copies so trying to do the right thing.

Same printers installed as before - when u select whole page in Publisher
and copy into new word doc instead of being central on page it is skewed to
right hand side and all pictures float over the text and are accessible for
altering instead of just being viewed.

I will try opening pdf's on Monday and saving as word.

 

[Jezebel]

For the Publisher issue: try experimenting with the default settings for
pasted graphics -- ie floating rather than inline, etc. Word's handling of
pasted graphics, in itself, did not change between 2000 and 2003; but the
default settings might have.