Re: Compatibility


John McGhie said the following on 21.7.2007 11:28:
A few tips that will help:

1) Select all and set the Language to the language you are using. That
should get rid of the Czech nagging.

EXCUSE ME!? I beg your pardon. I do not understand these people driving on the wrong side of the road.
See, I'm better today...

2) Use only the fonts provided with Microsoft Office (e.g. Times New Roman
and Arial, not Times and Helvetica). The Microsoft fonts for the Mac are
specially tweaked to match the fonts of the same name supplied with the PC.
In other words, they are not the same fonts, they are coded so that what you
see on the Mac will look as close as possible to what you will see on the
PC.

3) Remove all blank lines, blank paragraphs, multiple spaces, and page
breaks from your text. Learn to paginate your document with combinations of
Paragraph properties: these will move smoothly between platforms without
changing their position or effect. "Keep With Next" instead of page breaks,
"Space Before" instead of blank lines, "Keep Lines Together" instead of hard
page breaks.

If you do only those three simple things, most of your problems should be
solved.

Whenever you open a Word document, Word re-lays it for the printer that is
connected and the fonts that are available. It is designed to do this, and
you can't prevent it.

However, you can USE this feature to your advantage. If you construct your
document to layout correctly automatically, it will layout correctly
regardless of which platform or printer it appears on.

Rather than try to take control and override all of Word's features to force
the appearance you want, learn to let go control and allow Word to take over
the job for you. Then you use those properties I mentioned to "influence"
Word's choices so that it gets it the way you want it, automatically.

For good results, I recommend that you use only styles for your formatting.
Don't use directly-applied formatting at all if you can help it.

Set your styles to have space "after" rather than space "before". This will
give you a nice even top page margin. The exception is Headings: use 2-1/2
times the font height of space before on Headings.

Use tabs sparingly: use borderless tables to lay out tabular material.

Hope this helps

And you forget about pictures... You'd better to save all your pictures on your HDD in some reasonable file format, such as gif, tiff, png, jpg. And then insert them into Word As insert>picture>from file. Try to avoid copy and paste them. Also I wold avoid using drawing tools to make complex images on PC and then opening that file on Mac. They will not look very nice.


I would also recommend you to make a template according to all rules John has pointed above and copy that template on your Mac as well as PC. Then base your document on this template and make sure, word can see it.

If you just need to make a file, send it to someone on PC who is not supposed to make any changes, you can print your Word document to PDF and send them PDF. This will looks all the time same.

On 21/7/07 3:36 PM, in article
1184997996.653565.249870@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"seejanedream@xxxxxxxxx" <seejanedream@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Help! I have been trying for forever to find a way to make my Resume
in Microsoft Office for Macs look the same when it's opened on a PC.
I have tried using different extensions - .doc, .rtf, and nothing
seems to work!

I tried running a compatibility report, and it keeps telling me that
there is Czech text in my document, and there isn't!

Is there something else I am supposed to be doing to make this
compatible???

Thanks ahead of time for anyone who can help...


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