Word 2000 vs Word 2007

[jjk98]

I am a writer and have successfully used Word 2000 for a number of 400+ page
books with MANY illustrations. I am bravely attempting to move to Word 2007
and a number of questions have come up.

Where is the Word 2000 "View Normal" functionality that allows me to set the
width of the style area and see the style names? I know that "View Normal" in
2000 is "View Draft" in 2007 but there seems to be no way to see the styles.

How do I set the View parameters on File Open to default to two page 110%

Is there any way to set the default for File Save As to .doc NOT .docx? I
must have had 30 email recipients complain about attached word files as not
readable as they are .docx, and being old it is hard to retrain myself not to
blindly save without changing the file extension.

One of the very neat features in Word 2007 is that if you right click
anywhere in the document two widows appear, a small one with two rows of
icons primarily for text formating and another with more complex tasks. In
both of these I cannot find any method for customizing their contents. Great
idea, but without customization, not all that useful as many of things I use
frequently are not there, e.g. center justication is there but not right,
left, or both. Sort of useless to have only one.

The old Word 2000 "Insert->Picture->From File" used to show the thumbnail of
the picture selected. It no longer does so. Is there any way to restore the
feature?

Probably should not have asked such a variety of questions. I have more...
but will stop here.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Where is the Word 2000 "View Normal" functionality that allows me to
set the width of the style area and see the style names? I know that
"View Normal" in 2000 is "View Draft" in 2007 but there seems to be
no way to see the styles.

Word Options > Advanced > Display > Style area pane width

How do I set the View parameters on File Open to default to two page
110%

Whether or not Word will display 2 pages at 110% zoom is determined by your
display size and resolution, however Change the zoom setting -
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm
or
You can control the zoom with auto macros in normal.dot. The following will
set it to 100% zoom regardless of what the document thinks it should be.
Change the 100 to any preferred zoom level. I have included also some of the
other regular problem fixes, but you can remove the extra lines if required.
If you want normal rather than print layout view swap the apostrophe from
the beginning of the line where indicated to the other.

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

Sub AutoNew()
With ActiveWindow.View
'**********************
.Type = wdPrintView
'.Type = wdNormalView
'**********************
.Zoom.Percentage = 110
End With
End Sub

Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName
With ActiveWindow.View
'**********************
.Type = wdPrintView
'.Type = wdNormalView
'**********************
.Zoom.Percentage = 110
End With
End Sub

Is there any way to set the default for File Save As to .doc NOT
.docx? I must have had 30 email recipients complain about attached
word files as not readable as they are .docx, and being old it is
hard to retrain myself not to blindly save without changing the file
extension.

Word Options > Save > Save files in this format. This will not override the
saved format of existing documents nor affect the internal format of the
document before it is saved.

One of the very neat features in Word 2007 is that if you right click
anywhere in the document two widows appear, a small one with two rows
of icons primarily for text formating and another with more complex
tasks. In both of these I cannot find any method for customizing
their contents. Great idea, but without customization, not all that
useful as many of things I use frequently are not there, e.g. center
justication is there but not right, left, or both. Sort of useless
to have only one.

See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Customize_Word2007_SC_Menu_Programatically.htm

The old Word 2000 "Insert->Picture->From File" used to show the
thumbnail of the picture selected. It no longer does so. Is there
any way to restore the feature?

From the insert > picture dialog you can select a variety of views by right
clicking in the filename are and select View - or even more views by
clicking the 'Views' icon top right of the file window.

Probably should not have asked such a variety of questions. I have
more... but will stop here.

No problem

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP


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[Jay Freedman]

Some answers in-line...

I am a writer and have successfully used Word 2000 for a number of 400+ page
books with MANY illustrations. I am bravely attempting to move to Word 2007
and a number of questions have come up.

Where is the Word 2000 "View Normal" functionality that allows me to set the
width of the style area and see the style names? I know that "View Normal" in
2000 is "View Draft" in 2007 but there seems to be no way to see the styles.

Click the Office button in the upper left corner and choose Word
Options from the bottom right corner of the menu. This is the
equivalent of the old Tools > Options command, although its dialog
pages are just as poorly organized as before.

Click the Advanced tab of the dialog and scroll down to the Display
group, where you'll find the "Style area pane width" setting.

How do I set the View parameters on File Open to default to two page 110%

As in earlier versions, documents normally open with the same zoom
percentage they had at the last save. You can force a particular value
by writing an AutoOpen macro like the one near the end of
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

Is there any way to set the default for File Save As to .doc NOT .docx? I
must have had 30 email recipients complain about attached word files as not
readable as they are .docx, and being old it is hard to retrain myself not to
blindly save without changing the file extension.

In the Word Options dialog, on the Save tab, set the dropdown for
"Save files in this format" to Word 97-2003 Document. That controls
the default format; you can still save as .docx when you want to.

One of the very neat features in Word 2007 is that if you right click
anywhere in the document two widows appear, a small one with two rows of
icons primarily for text formating and another with more complex tasks. In
both of these I cannot find any method for customizing their contents. Great
idea, but without customization, not all that useful as many of things I use
frequently are not there, e.g. center justication is there but not right,
left, or both. Sort of useless to have only one.

The context menu (the one with more complex tasks) can be customized,
but that requires a macro. The other one (called the mini bar,
although some of us prefer the name "floatie" that was used during the
beta test) is not customizable at all.

There are keyboard shortcuts for most of the formatting commands, such
as Ctrl+L for left justification, Ctrl+R for right, and Ctrl+J for
both. Read the help topic "Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word".

Also, you can add any of the formatting buttons, or the entire Font
and Paragraph groups from the Home menu, to the Quick Access Toolbar.
Just right-click in the ribbon and choose Add to Quick Access Toolbar.

The old Word 2000 "Insert->Picture->From File" used to show the thumbnail of
the picture selected. It no longer does so. Is there any way to restore the
feature?

That's just a view that you can select in the dialog. Exactly how
depends on which Windows version you're using, but there should be a
View button somewhere on the dialog, or you can right-click a blank
area and choose View; then select Thumbnails or Large Icons. In some
versions there is also a Preview pane that can be displayed.

Probably should not have asked such a variety of questions. I have more...
but will stop here.

Come on back and ask the rest. (By the way, I'm in my 60s and not the
oldest of the regulars here. Don't think you can't keep learning.)

 

[jjk98]

In probing about in the Help files I have found out that the pop-up that
appears when one right clicks in the document is called the "Mini Toolbar"
and I found out that it CANNOT be customized! Also the example of the "Mini
Toolbar" in the Word help does NOT have the same content as the actual
implementation. Try help with search "Quick Styles" and down in the text
there is a section on the mini toolbar with a picture that has additional
icons in the box, but not in the implementation.

The implemented mini toolbar does have button for the styles, but none of
them are those used in the document.

Word 2007 appears to have a bunch neat ideas and rates a score of B+ for
concept and a C- for implementation of those concepts.