Woord 2007 has a BUG because it cannot open a Woord 2003 doc. file

[Bill Angell]

Word 2007 definitely has a bug in it because nobody can open the word
document at the bottom of this web page in Word 2007 called Bill's listing
http://www.peoriatheatre.com/theatre/index.html

Microsoft needs to create a fix for Word 2007 that will allow this file and
others like it to load in Word 2007. It loads just fine in Word 2003 or
earlier and anyone can load the .PDF version to see what it is supposed to
look like.

In case Microsoft would like to know, this file was probably created
originally in Word 95 or possibly earlier and it gets updated monthly. Word
2007 users need to be able to access it.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I can confirm that trying to open the file causes Word 2007 to crash.

Oddly... I can insert it into a new document just fine, but can't
successfully open it stand-alone.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Bill,

I've passed the file and the crash reports to MS as it's definitely an interesting file and it does crash Word 2007 SP1 for me. I can create a new document in Word 2007 with similar features and that too will crash Word, so it may indeed be a bug in table handling within multiple newspaper columns in Word 2007. In Word 2003, using the Office 2007 compatibility pack I can save in Word 2007 format (.docx) and reopen that file in Word 2003 without the crash.

You've certainly pushed Word a bit on the complexity of the layout

- You have a table that has merged cells across rows.

- The table is nested inside a newspaper/snaking column layout.

- There is a floating textbox anchored to the table header row
so that it covers the whole page width and has wrapping
set to tight so that it appears on each page as part of
the table header/repeating row. In effect a page header.
Within the text box it has wrap text turned on and that
'grows' the text box to span the columns.

- The merged cells and the textbox have
Widow and Orphan control & keep with next turned on.

First thought was that it was a bug in Word 2003's Format=>Column dialog but changing it to use 'equal width columns' didn't stop the crash in Word 2007, nor did removing all of the Widow & orphan paragraph settings in styles including those of merged table cells, and the table is set to 'none' for table wrapping.

With the present layout it looks like it's that textbox tied to a table header repeating cell in multiple columns and wrapped that Word 2007 doesn't seem able to cope with.

In Word 2007, in a new document, even without that textbox, if I turn on 'header rows repeat, while the table is in a multiple column format, the column headers became locked to editing. That does not occur in Word 2003.

There are a couple of approaches you may wish to consider that will allow the file to be viewed by folks Word 2003 and Word 2007 as well as in Word Viewer (for folks who may not have Word).

1. If you cut the textbox from the document and put it in the Header
View=>Header/Footer, Word 2007 handles it, but it will be dimmed when viewed on screen.

2. Cut the textbox from the document and Edit=>Paste Special as a JPEG then set the wrapping to infront of text, and 'Advanced formatting set to position horizontally based on the margin and turn off [x] Layout in Table Cell. You may want to adjust the top margin of your document a bit to accomodate the height of the graphic.

Either of those choices should permit the PDF version to continue to have the same appearance.

FWIW, if I try too much to adjust the textbox positioning while in Word 2003 or Word 2000 it crashes those versions as well.

===============
Word 2007 definitely has a bug in it because nobody can open the word
document at the bottom of this web page in Word 2007 called Bill's listing
http://www.peoriatheatre.com/theatre/index.html

Microsoft needs to create a fix for Word 2007 that will allow this file and
others like it to load in Word 2007. It loads just fine in Word 2003 or
earlier and anyone can load the .PDF version to see what it is supposed to
look like.

In case Microsoft would like to know, this file was probably created
originally in Word 95 or possibly earlier and it gets updated monthly. Word
2007 users need to be able to access it.
--
Bill >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Beth Melton]

If I remove the two column format then Word 2007 doesn't crash so you're right, it appears to have something to do with the multiple columns and tables.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs

Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx

"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message Hi Bill,

I've passed the file and the crash reports to MS as it's definitely an interesting file and it does crash Word 2007 SP1 for me. I can create a new document in Word 2007 with similar features and that too will crash Word, so it may indeed be a bug in table handling within multiple newspaper columns in Word 2007. In Word 2003, using the Office 2007 compatibility pack I can save in Word 2007 format (.docx) and reopen that file in Word 2003 without the crash.

You've certainly pushed Word a bit on the complexity of the layout

- You have a table that has merged cells across rows.

- The table is nested inside a newspaper/snaking column layout.

- There is a floating textbox anchored to the table header row
so that it covers the whole page width and has wrapping
set to tight so that it appears on each page as part of
the table header/repeating row. In effect a page header.
Within the text box it has wrap text turned on and that
'grows' the text box to span the columns.

- The merged cells and the textbox have
Widow and Orphan control & keep with next turned on.

First thought was that it was a bug in Word 2003's Format=>Column dialog but changing it to use 'equal width columns' didn't stop the crash in Word 2007, nor did removing all of the Widow & orphan paragraph settings in styles including those of merged table cells, and the table is set to 'none' for table wrapping.

With the present layout it looks like it's that textbox tied to a table header repeating cell in multiple columns and wrapped that Word 2007 doesn't seem able to cope with.

In Word 2007, in a new document, even without that textbox, if I turn on 'header rows repeat, while the table is in a multiple column format, the column headers became locked to editing. That does not occur in Word 2003.

There are a couple of approaches you may wish to consider that will allow the file to be viewed by folks Word 2003 and Word 2007 as well as in Word Viewer (for folks who may not have Word).

1. If you cut the textbox from the document and put it in the Header
View=>Header/Footer, Word 2007 handles it, but it will be dimmed when viewed on screen.

2. Cut the textbox from the document and Edit=>Paste Special as a JPEG then set the wrapping to infront of text, and 'Advanced formatting set to position horizontally based on the margin and turn off [x] Layout in Table Cell. You may want to adjust the top margin of your document a bit to accomodate the height of the graphic.

Either of those choices should permit the PDF version to continue to have the same appearance.

FWIW, if I try too much to adjust the textbox positioning while in Word 2003 or Word 2000 it crashes those versions as well.

===============
Word 2007 definitely has a bug in it because nobody can open the word
document at the bottom of this web page in Word 2007 called Bill's listing
http://www.peoriatheatre.com/theatre/index.html

Microsoft needs to create a fix for Word 2007 that will allow this file and
others like it to load in Word 2007. It loads just fine in Word 2003 or
earlier and anyone can load the .PDF version to see what it is supposed to
look like.

In case Microsoft would like to know, this file was probably created
originally in Word 95 or possibly earlier and it gets updated monthly. Word
2007 users need to be able to access it.
--
Bill >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Just having tables in multiple columns, however, isn't sufficient to cause a
crash. Building from the ground up, I created a document containing a long
table, then formatted it to have multiple columns. No problem. When I start
nesting tables within the cells of the table, however, things start to get
hinky--file permission error when trying to save. Still, I was able to
change the name and save to a new file.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


If I remove the two column format then Word 2007 doesn't crash so you're
right, it appears to have something to do with the multiple columns and
tables.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs

Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx

"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote
in message Hi Bill,

I've passed the file and the crash reports to MS as it's definitely an
interesting file and it does crash Word 2007 SP1 for me. I can create a new
document in Word 2007 with similar features and that too will crash Word, so
it may indeed be a bug in table handling within multiple newspaper columns
in Word 2007. In Word 2003, using the Office 2007 compatibility pack I can
save in Word 2007 format (.docx) and reopen that file in Word 2003 without
the crash.

You've certainly pushed Word a bit on the complexity of the layout

- You have a table that has merged cells across rows.

- The table is nested inside a newspaper/snaking column layout.

- There is a floating textbox anchored to the table header row
so that it covers the whole page width and has wrapping
set to tight so that it appears on each page as part of
the table header/repeating row. In effect a page header.
Within the text box it has wrap text turned on and that
'grows' the text box to span the columns.

- The merged cells and the textbox have
Widow and Orphan control & keep with next turned on.

First thought was that it was a bug in Word 2003's Format=>Column dialog but
changing it to use 'equal width columns' didn't stop the crash in Word 2007,
nor did removing all of the Widow & orphan paragraph settings in styles
including those of merged table cells, and the table is set to 'none' for
table wrapping.

With the present layout it looks like it's that textbox tied to a table
header repeating cell in multiple columns and wrapped that Word 2007 doesn't
seem able to cope with.

In Word 2007, in a new document, even without that textbox, if I turn on
'header rows repeat, while the table is in a multiple column format, the
column headers became locked to editing. That does not occur in Word 2003.

There are a couple of approaches you may wish to consider that will allow
the file to be viewed by folks Word 2003 and Word 2007 as well as in Word
Viewer (for folks who may not have Word).

1. If you cut the textbox from the document and put it in the Header
View=>Header/Footer, Word 2007 handles it, but it will be dimmed when
viewed on screen.

2. Cut the textbox from the document and Edit=>Paste Special as a JPEG then
set the wrapping to infront of text, and 'Advanced formatting set to
position horizontally based on the margin and turn off [x] Layout in Table
Cell. You may want to adjust the top margin of your document a bit to
accomodate the height of the graphic.

Either of those choices should permit the PDF version to continue to have
the same appearance.

FWIW, if I try too much to adjust the textbox positioning while in Word
2003 or Word 2000 it crashes those versions as well.

===============
Word 2007 definitely has a bug in it because nobody can open the word
document at the bottom of this web page in Word 2007 called Bill's listing
http://www.peoriatheatre.com/theatre/index.html

Microsoft needs to create a fix for Word 2007 that will allow this file and
others like it to load in Word 2007. It loads just fine in Word 2003 or
earlier and anyone can load the .PDF version to see what it is supposed to
look like.

In case Microsoft would like to know, this file was probably created
originally in Word 95 or possibly earlier and it gets updated monthly. Word
2007 users need to be able to access it.
--
Bill >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Herb,

Yes, that's the type of thing I was seeing. When you inserted the document into another Word document the table went back to a
single column, correct?

For the Word 2003 document Bill linked to, one of the things I tried was to turn the Title Text box into inline with text, which let
me open the document in Word 2007, but then changing it to wrapped and trying to move it above the table would crash Word 2007
again.

These are the steps I used to create in Word 2007 a table.
First issue is not knowing where you're typing in the header row (originally I thought iwas locked for editing) and then adding the
text box brought on a crash.

1. Office Button=>New=>Blank Document

2. Type =lorem(40,4) {Enter}

3. Saved the Document.

4. Select Page Layout=>Columns=>More Columns
to select two columns,
equal column width,
Spacing 0.2
Apply to whole document

5. Use Ctrl+A to select all text.


6. Insert=>Table=>Convert Text to Table
with 4 columns.
with 'Separate text at' set to Other and a period/dot.

7. With table still selected, from Table Tools=>Design tab
added [x] Last Column check mark and applied table style
'Medium Shaded 2 - Accent 3'

8. Clicked in first table cell, right click and chose
Insert=>Insert Rows Above

9. Typed column headings (Col 1, Col2, Col3, Col4)
in the four columns

10. With cursor in the 'header row'
I used Table Tools=>Layout=>
and selected 'Repeat Header Rows'

Note: If you use 'Table Styles' and apply a style (even 'plain table' at this point) the style application turns off the 'repeat
Header Rows' setting.

11. Saved file.

With 'Repeat Header Rows' turned on I am no longer getting a visual insert/typing cursor anywhere in the table to let me know where
I'm typing, but I can 'click' over the cell to type in and type.

12 Turn off the 'Repeat Header Rows' choice to get back the usual flashing cursor in the table/


13. I thought about trying to draw a table rather than a text box above the table in the columns, but Insert=>Table=>Draw a table
just sort of 'clunks' at me unless I hold the shift key, then the undo list shows 'Remove Cell Partition' but no new table So to
the next attempt.

14. With the cursor in the first column heading cell so that the drawn Textbox will anchor to what becomes a repeated header row use
Insert=>Text Box=>Draw a Text box
(my drawing default in Office Button=>Word Options is set to be 'in front of text)

15. Click in the first cell of the table and turn on Repeat Header Rows.
Note that the text box does not stay with the original headings, but jumps to be over the 'virtual' header row in the 2nd column.

16. Drag the left edge of the text box back over the full width of the table.

17. Select the text box, right click and select Format=>TextBox
and change wrapping to 'Tight'. The textbox ends up in the repeated header row set on the right column, not in the 'original'
header row on the left column.

18. At this point use Office Button=>Save As to create a copy with a new name, as once this one crashes, unless you go into the
..docx/zip structure it likely won't open again.

19. Right click the Textbox, and select
Format=>Text box=>Layout=>Advanced
and uncheck the 'Layout in Table Cell' choice.

=======================
Just having tables in multiple columns, however, isn't sufficient to cause a
crash. Building from the ground up, I created a document containing a long
table, then formatted it to have multiple columns. No problem. When I start nesting tables within the cells of the table, however,
things start to get hinky--file permission error when trying to save. Still, I was able to change the name and save to a new file.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Beth Melton]

I see that now thanks to Bob's repro steps.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs

Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx

Just having tables in multiple columns, however, isn't sufficient to cause
a crash. Building from the ground up, I created a document containing a
long table, then formatted it to have multiple columns. No problem. When I
start nesting tables within the cells of the table, however, things start
to get hinky--file permission error when trying to save. Still, I was able
to change the name and save to a new file.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


If I remove the two column format then Word 2007 doesn't crash so you're
right, it appears to have something to do with the multiple columns and
tables.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs

Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx

"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote
in message Hi Bill,

I've passed the file and the crash reports to MS as it's definitely an
interesting file and it does crash Word 2007 SP1 for me. I can create a
new document in Word 2007 with similar features and that too will crash
Word, so it may indeed be a bug in table handling within multiple
newspaper columns in Word 2007. In Word 2003, using the Office 2007
compatibility pack I can save in Word 2007 format (.docx) and reopen that
file in Word 2003 without the crash.

You've certainly pushed Word a bit on the complexity of the layout

- You have a table that has merged cells across rows.

- The table is nested inside a newspaper/snaking column layout.

- There is a floating textbox anchored to the table header row
so that it covers the whole page width and has wrapping
set to tight so that it appears on each page as part of
the table header/repeating row. In effect a page header.
Within the text box it has wrap text turned on and that
'grows' the text box to span the columns.

- The merged cells and the textbox have
Widow and Orphan control & keep with next turned on.

First thought was that it was a bug in Word 2003's Format=>Column dialog
but changing it to use 'equal width columns' didn't stop the crash in Word
2007, nor did removing all of the Widow & orphan paragraph settings in
styles including those of merged table cells, and the table is set to
'none' for table wrapping.

With the present layout it looks like it's that textbox tied to a table
header repeating cell in multiple columns and wrapped that Word 2007
doesn't seem able to cope with.

In Word 2007, in a new document, even without that textbox, if I turn on
'header rows repeat, while the table is in a multiple column format, the
column headers became locked to editing. That does not occur in Word
2003.

There are a couple of approaches you may wish to consider that will allow
the file to be viewed by folks Word 2003 and Word 2007 as well as in Word
Viewer (for folks who may not have Word).

1. If you cut the textbox from the document and put it in the Header
View=>Header/Footer, Word 2007 handles it, but it will be dimmed when
viewed on screen.

2. Cut the textbox from the document and Edit=>Paste Special as a JPEG
then set the wrapping to infront of text, and 'Advanced formatting set to
position horizontally based on the margin and turn off [x] Layout in Table
Cell. You may want to adjust the top margin of your document a bit to
accomodate the height of the graphic.

Either of those choices should permit the PDF version to continue to have
the same appearance.

FWIW, if I try too much to adjust the textbox positioning while in Word
2003 or Word 2000 it crashes those versions as well.

===============
Word 2007 definitely has a bug in it because nobody can open the word
document at the bottom of this web page in Word 2007 called Bill's listing
http://www.peoriatheatre.com/theatre/index.html

Microsoft needs to create a fix for Word 2007 that will allow this file
and
others like it to load in Word 2007. It loads just fine in Word 2003 or
earlier and anyone can load the .PDF version to see what it is supposed to
look like.

In case Microsoft would like to know, this file was probably created
originally in Word 95 or possibly earlier and it gets updated monthly.
Word
2007 users need to be able to access it.
--
Bill >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Bill Angell]

I appreciate all of the comments. It looks like Microsoft has a number of
bugs to fix before my Theatre list will load in Word 2007. I just wanted to
add that the same problem occurs when trying to load the file in Word Pad
2007 but not in Word Pad 2003.

From what I've read, even if I had created this from scratch in Word 2007,
it wouldn't work like it should. Hopefully it won't take Microsoft long to
correct these bugs in their flagship program.

--
Bill
(e-mail address removed)

I see that now thanks to Bob's repro steps.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs

Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx

Just having tables in multiple columns, however, isn't sufficient to cause
a crash. Building from the ground up, I created a document containing a
long table, then formatted it to have multiple columns. No problem. When I
start nesting tables within the cells of the table, however, things start
to get hinky--file permission error when trying to save. Still, I was able
to change the name and save to a new file.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


If I remove the two column format then Word 2007 doesn't crash so you're
right, it appears to have something to do with the multiple columns and
tables.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs

Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx

"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote
in message Hi Bill,

I've passed the file and the crash reports to MS as it's definitely an
interesting file and it does crash Word 2007 SP1 for me. I can create a
new document in Word 2007 with similar features and that too will crash
Word, so it may indeed be a bug in table handling within multiple
newspaper columns in Word 2007. In Word 2003, using the Office 2007
compatibility pack I can save in Word 2007 format (.docx) and reopen that
file in Word 2003 without the crash.

You've certainly pushed Word a bit on the complexity of the layout

- You have a table that has merged cells across rows.

- The table is nested inside a newspaper/snaking column layout.

- There is a floating textbox anchored to the table header row
so that it covers the whole page width and has wrapping
set to tight so that it appears on each page as part of
the table header/repeating row. In effect a page header.
Within the text box it has wrap text turned on and that
'grows' the text box to span the columns.

- The merged cells and the textbox have
Widow and Orphan control & keep with next turned on.

First thought was that it was a bug in Word 2003's Format=>Column dialog
but changing it to use 'equal width columns' didn't stop the crash in Word
2007, nor did removing all of the Widow & orphan paragraph settings in
styles including those of merged table cells, and the table is set to
'none' for table wrapping.

With the present layout it looks like it's that textbox tied to a table
header repeating cell in multiple columns and wrapped that Word 2007
doesn't seem able to cope with.

In Word 2007, in a new document, even without that textbox, if I turn on
'header rows repeat, while the table is in a multiple column format, the
column headers became locked to editing. That does not occur in Word
2003.

There are a couple of approaches you may wish to consider that will allow
the file to be viewed by folks Word 2003 and Word 2007 as well as in Word
Viewer (for folks who may not have Word).

1. If you cut the textbox from the document and put it in the Header
View=>Header/Footer, Word 2007 handles it, but it will be dimmed when
viewed on screen.

2. Cut the textbox from the document and Edit=>Paste Special as a JPEG
then set the wrapping to infront of text, and 'Advanced formatting set to
position horizontally based on the margin and turn off [x] Layout in Table
Cell. You may want to adjust the top margin of your document a bit to
accomodate the height of the graphic.

Either of those choices should permit the PDF version to continue to have
the same appearance.

FWIW, if I try too much to adjust the textbox positioning while in Word
2003 or Word 2000 it crashes those versions as well.

===============
Word 2007 definitely has a bug in it because nobody can open the word
document at the bottom of this web page in Word 2007 called Bill's listing
http://www.peoriatheatre.com/theatre/index.html

Microsoft needs to create a fix for Word 2007 that will allow this file
and
others like it to load in Word 2007. It loads just fine in Word 2003 or
earlier and anyone can load the .PDF version to see what it is supposed to
look like.

In case Microsoft would like to know, this file was probably created
originally in Word 95 or possibly earlier and it gets updated monthly.
Word
2007 users need to be able to access it.
--
Bill >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Bill,

It may be awhile until a fix is available (hopefully but not guaranteed to be in Service Pack 2) but the workaround that I posted in
the original reply should work to make the document readable in Word 2003 and 2007.
I can email you the workaround copy I created if you like.

Thank you for bringing the issue to light.

==============
I appreciate all of the comments. It looks like Microsoft has a number of
bugs to fix before my Theatre list will load in Word 2007. I just wanted to
add that the same problem occurs when trying to load the file in Word Pad
2007 but not in Word Pad 2003.

From what I've read, even if I had created this from scratch in Word 2007,
it wouldn't work like it should. Hopefully it won't take Microsoft long to
correct these bugs in their flagship program.

--
Bill >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Bill Angell]

Bob,

That would be wonderful. My e-mail address is (e-mail address removed)

One other idea I had is it possible to install Office 2003 on the same
computer as Office 2007? But your workaround should be better.

I will probably work on the workaround version on on my Word 2007 and then
save it in 2003 format because I do not have a program that will convert a
2007 version of a word document to .PDF.

The web site that hosts my calendar list isn't mine and I think the guy may
have had a heart attack or something because I haven't been able to send him
any updates since August 2007. So you may not see it in action.

There are a LOT of changes since August so I wondered if you could make the
fixes to my April 2008 calendar which I would be glad to send to you but I
don't know your e-mail address.

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Many of us run Word 2003 and 2007 side by side with no problems other than
the occasional "Wait, while..." message when starting one after running the
other. There is a registry setting that can tame that behavior:

http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com/2007/04/15/word-2007-and-word-2003-coexisting/

 

[Bill Angell]

Bob,

I tried to send you my updated Calendar List doc file but it came back as an
in valid address. Blease e-mail me so I can send you the latest calendar to
modify.

I used this address for you (e-mail address removed) but it came back in
returned mail.

Thanks,
Bill