Re: Converting Word 97 docs to XP

From: garfield-n-odie (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:30:29 -0700

I switched from Word97/Win98SE to WordXP/WinXP almost two years ago.
All of my Word 97 documents were based on either the Normal.dot template
or my own GarfieldStyleGuide.dot template. After I copied both of these
templates from my old Word 97 computer to my new Word XP computer, I had
no reformatting problems attributable to Word XP when opening old
documents, and I had some really long and complex documents. I did have
an occasional difference in pagination that was attributable to the new
Windows XP printer driver. If you know what templates your Word 97
documents are based on, maybe copying those templates over will work for
you too.

Jessica Ytuarte wrote:

> Our company is in the final steps of rolling out Windows
> and Office XP. One of our outstanding issues involves the
> conversion of Word 97 documents to XP. It presents a
> bigger challenge in our field than most because we deal
> with FDA controlled documents. When these SOP's created
> in Word 97 are opened, the paging and formatting become
> skewed - increasing the number of pages and thereby
> misplacing page breaks, etc. We've narrowed the problem
> down to font size. It seems Arial 11 in 97 becomes Arial
> 12 in XP. Correcting the problem is more complex than it
> might seem at first glance since there are mixed fonts,
> text boxes, graphics, charts, etc. mixed in between -
> preventing us from blanketly changing the fonts. The huge
> number of these documents contributes to precluding us
> from manually correcting these documents. We are
> considering rolling back to Word 97. I hope someone out
> there can offer a better alternative. Thank you!