I just installed a copy of Office 2003 on my new Windows 7 Pro machine in our office. We're transitioning all of our systems from XP to Win7.
I'm experiencing a formatting issue with MS Word. When I use my Win 7 machine to open a file that I created on my XP machine, the formatting is very different. The paragraph spacing is 1.5+ and the fonts are called the same thing, but look a bit different.
Help?
Word 2003 is compatible with both Win 7 32 & 64-bit.
Windows 7 Compatibility for Microsoft Office Word 2003 version 11: Microsoft. Drivers, Updates, Downloads
Refer to this Tutorial to see if helps with your problem.
Compatibility Mode
Windows XP and Windows 7 are Operating systems - Word is part of the Office Suite.
As JMH says, both Operating systems are compatible with Office 2003. Which version of Office (Word) is installed on the XP machine?
Compatibility check is clean.
Both versions are identical - Office 2003
Original 1 page view from XP - ImageShack® - Online Photo and Video Hosting
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Altered view from Win7 - ImageShack® - Online Photo and Video Hosting
Perhaps a couple links to screen caps will help. As you can see, the text is significantly different.
In the following thread (although it refers to Vista), it is saying that it is likely to be a Printer/Printer driver issue:
Vista formatting of 2003 Word vs. XP formatting inconsistencies in Word Application Errors
I'll keep searching. :)Almost certainly this is caused by the printer/printer driver setup on
Doug Robbins - Word MVP replied on Monday, February 01, 2010 9:29 PM
Almost certainly this is caused by the printer/printer driver setup on the
Vista machine being different from that on the Windows XP machine.
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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
EDIT:
Something else I just found - have you applied all of the Office 2003 updates on the new computer? - see here:
Issues that are fixed in Word 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 3
Some characters that have the Arial Narrow font applied to them are not displayed as expected
When you apply the Arial Narrow font to text, characters that use a comma under the baseline or the Romanian characters "Ss" and "Tt," are not displayed as expected. This problem is fixed in the following font files:
- Arialn.ttf
- Arialnb.ttf
- Arialnbi.ttf
- Arialni.ttf
To test the a potential print driver conflict, I set up a new machine, installed all Windows Updates, installed Office '03 with all updates, mapped a drive to our server, (all this without adding any printers) opened the same file in Word, and still experienced the same problem. I can conclude that the print drivers are not the source of the problem.
2003 SP3 installed on each machine.
There's another way to look at this problem. If you are trying to keep your Word docs from your XP system to look the same when you transfer them to your Windows 7 system, here's what you can do:
Open a Word document, click the Windows Orb, go to Word Options, Advanced, scroll down to the very bottom of the screen to "Compatibility Options for" and select: "All new documents."
Then, under: "Lay out this document as if created in" open the drop-down menu and select: Microsoft Word 2003" (or if that doesn't help, the next time, try "Custom").
Then, if you want to preserve your old format whenever copying and pasting, in that same Advanced section scroll back up to the “Cut, Copy and Paste” section. There you will see 4 windows: "Pasting within the same document," "Pasting between documents," "Pasting between documents when style definitions conflict," and "Pasting from other programs." For all of them, select: "Keep source formatting (default)."
PS You might also need to think about in which format you want to save those docs, once transferred to the new system. For that option, go into the Save section, Save Documents, and under: "Save documents in this format" select whatever format you wish to save them as.
FWIW, I have MS Office 2003 Professional and FrontPage 2003 installed on my Win 7 64 bit system. Everything works without problems, including Outlook 2003.
Perhaps Office 2003 has a default format file like Office 2007 has. In Office 2007 there is a normal.dot file (default template). If Office 2003 DOES have a default template file (normal.dot or w/e) then copy it over from your XP computer to your Win 7 computer. Making a backup of the original file on Win 7 before replace of course. Thought there is, maybe the settings are customized (somewhat) on the XP machine.
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