Re: Formatting changed when converted in Word 2007

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:15:08 -0700, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)"
<75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote:

Hi Fredrik,

If I'm following you correctly -

1. You're starting in Word 2003 using the default Word 2003 normal style with Times New Roman 12 pt.

That is correct.

2. You have a paragraph style based on Normal with the only change being using Verdana 8.5 at grey 80% that you apply to a full
paragraph. (I created a style and saved it in the document, but not in the template).

I have narrowed it down a bit: I have one single paragraph (I deleted
all the other paragraphs) that uses the Normal paragraph style. There
is also two character styles, one with Verdana 8,5 80 % gray (based on
the default paragraph font) and one with Times New Roman 11pt (based
on the previus character style) applied to the text. No sign of any
character spacing in any of the styles.

These styles are obviously results of text being copied and pasted
from at different document. In the full document there is one style
with 10,5 character spacing but it is removed in the document I'm
working on now.

3. You then applying to the full paragraph Times New Roman font, then save the document as both .doc and .docx from Word 2007.

I just save the document as doc in Word 2003.

4. You then open the Word 2003 .doc file in Word 2007, use
Office Button=>Convert, use Shift+F1 to pull up reveal formatting and check for anomolies, and also in
Font=>Launcher=>Character Spacing then save as a docx.

That is correct. No signs of any character spacing in any of the
styles or elsewhere.

5. Close the new .docx file, reopen it, use Shift F1 again and check in Reveal Formatting and under Font=>Launcher=>Character
spacing and now you're seeing character spacing other than 'Normal' or the font size on the Ribbon is showing 10.5 rather than 11pt?

I close the document and re-open it. Now the characterspacing is 10,5
in the paragraph. If I check in Reveal formatting, it says
characterspacing 10,5. If I check the characterstyles, it says
characterspacing 10,5

If so, I'm not able to reproduce this using those steps, whether reopening the document in Word 2003 or Word 2007. To generate the
text for the document I started with a blank document and typed
=rand(30,5) {Enter key}

I have tried to reproduce it my self but no luck so far. There is
obviously something inherited from text that has been pasted from a
different document. The thing I don't understand is that the character
spacing is supressed by direct formatting in 2003 but not in 2007.

One thing I discovered just now: If I save the document as docx from
Word 2003, open it in 2007, convert, save and re-open, the problem is
gone. It only happens when it is opened as doc in 2007 and converted.

Are you using both Word 2003 and Word 2007 on the same computer and have both open at the same time (trying to follow your use of
Format Painter).
If so, are you storing the Normal.dot (Word 2003) and Normal.dotm (Word 2007) templates in the same template folder?

Do you have Service Pack 1 applied to Office 2007?

Are both Office 2003 and Office 2007 English language editions?

Are the measurement units on your PC set to metric and the paper size set to convert between letter and A4 size automatically?

Do both Word 2003 and Word 2007 have the same default printer selected?

Do you have any add-ins running in Word?

It has been tested on three different computers, with both English and
Norwegian language editions. It has been tested on both Vista and XP.
All service packs are installed and noe add-ins are running. The
document can be made available if anyone wants to look at it.

Thanks for helping out. We're trying to figure out what kind of
problems we can run into when converting documents to OOXML, but this
seems more like a bug.

--
Fredrik E. Nilsen
http://fenilsen.wordpress.com
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