Re: Windows Compatibility Problem - Concatenated Words Related to Track Changes

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I'm still getting the joined words - missing spaces - compatibility
bug when sharing Word 2008 .docx documents with Windows users. I'm
using the latest version of Word 2008 - 12.2.2 (080522). I know this
bug was supposed to have been fixed in the last update. Does anybody
have any updated information on what is going on?

Thanks,

Nigel


On May 19, 2:38 pm, Nigel <ni...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm working on a document with a client who is running Windows Vista
and Office 2007. I created a document, switched on track changes, sent
the doc to the client, and then edited the doc when it came back to me
with changes. After editing, I accepted all changes in the document,
saved the document with a new name, and then sent it back to the
client. From my perspective, everything in the new version of the
document looks OK. However, when my client looks at the document, he
sees occasional concatenatedwords(for example "expose the units"
appears as "exposethe units"). The concatenatedwordsappear to be
connected to previously tracked changes. But not all changes resulted
in concatenatedwords.

If I copy the problematic document to Windows XP, running in Parallels
Desktop on my Mac, and then open the document with Word 2004, I also
see the concatenatedwords. But, back in OS X, if I save the original
file to Word 97 - 2004 format, the problem goes away (both on
Parallels/XP and on Vista).

I also tried creating a brand new document and copying the text from
the problem document into the new doc (all apart from the last few
spaces at the end of the last para). But this didn't resolve the
problem.

Any thoughts on what could be happening? Is this a known bug?

Thanks,

Nigel

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