Re: Comment ballon text shows musical notes on import to Word 2003 (Win)

Hi John,
Thanks for help. Sorry, my writing was just a bit unclear (saving room in the subject area). As I said further into the write-up, it is the balloon *headings* (with my name in them) only that are garbled. (And, yes, I do have a name there... ;-)

So I'll report that problem to MS. I will also just try changing the text via Styles and see if that fixes the problem (it may change the heading as well...)

- Dave

Hmmm... You CAN change the font of the Balloon "TEXT", but you are correct,
you cannot change the font of the balloon "Headings".

There is a style named Balloon Text that you can update to change the font
of the text.

That said, they work OK here. The name used is in Word>Preferences>User
Information. You do HAVE a name entered there?

If so, I suggest that you use Help>Sent Feedback to enter a bug to
Microsoft. To make sure they track this one. Be very specific with the
versions of your Mac, OS, Updates, and Software. Without very specific
version information, they may not replicate the bug and thus will not fix
it.

The second problem is just a bug. It's a warning that you are using the old
file format so some of the new features of Word 2008 will be down-converted
if you close the document.

The error message should really say "You are saving in the old format that
can't contain the new graphics -- do you want to continue? If you do,
affected graphics will be converted to the old format and become read-only."

Cheers


On 31/03/08 9:52 AM, in article ee96ba0.-1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"davekeyboardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

> Version: 2008
> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
> Processor: intel
>
> Does anyone have any idea on what is causing this problem and what can be done
> to fix? (From my testing, it looks like a bug):
>
> - Create a simple doc on Word 2003 on Windows (could be 1 paragraph).
> - Open the doc in Word 2008 for Mac. Set Track Changes on (if off). Do some
> editing.
> - Open doc in Word 2003 on XP, and balloon text headings for changes show
> musical notes instead of author name (a real pain for collaborative mark-ups
> with everyone else I work with).
>
> This problem appears as if the font used for ballon headings on the Mac is not
> compatible (i.e. same type) as on Windows so symbol characters are
> substituted. But you can't change the default type used for the balloons by
> Word 2008 on the Mac, so I'm stuck here.
>
> Also, in checking compatibility, I have 2003 on Windows set to "Windows 2003"
> in Options. On the Mac, I have the options set for "2000-2004 and X," yet the
> report throws an error and says that I'm set for compato with Word 60/95. I
> can't get rid of this, and have set Prefs correctly (defaults, also resetting
> the compato check engine prefs). This may not be related, but not sure... Any
> ideas?

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