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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / October 2008Compatibility issues with word 2008 for mac
Hi guys, Ok so I have a white macbook, am running Leopard OS version 10.5.2. When I am working in a word document (2008 for mac) and I go to save it I always click the compatibility button first. Sometimes I get the "Word 6.0/95 compatibility options are set" but other times it's comes back as having no issues. Anyway when it does happen I go into preferences, compatibility, and then change it to 2007-2008 (or 2000-2004 and X like it suggests but I get the same result either way). When I change it, it comes out being ok, "no compatibility issues". All is well right? well no because anytime I reopen it I get the same message about "word 6.0/95 compatibility options are set". WHY does this message keep coming up? it even does it on new blank documents if I save them and reopen. I read on here that someone else suggested changing the default in the preferences/compatibility window to 2007-2008 but I tried that and it has absolutely no effect. Thanks if anyone has any ideas about why this is or what it means. Jen. Many of the people volunteering in here are persons of the "girl" sort, and quite proud of the fact that they are :-) To answer your question: this is a badly-worded warning. All it means is that you are saving the document in the old file format. The old file format has no way to describe some of the things that Word 2008 can create. Which means that potentially some of your graphics will be down-converted into the old format that cannot be edited. Always save in the new .docx format. You can down-convert it if someone asks; and increasingly, they won't. There's a free converter available for download from the Mactopia site that enables old versions of the applications to edit and save the new format. Hope this helps On 5/04/08 7:48 AM, in article d143bb65-8462-4965-9261-f49def2299e2@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com, > Hi guys, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Jen.  SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/ Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50 +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name thanks for that, when I said "guys" I meant you know, everyone - bad wording on my part haha. The thing is, it's mostly a problem because I need it to be compatible with PCs I used at school and for work I do for one of my professors so docx doesn't really work for that. A couple times he hasn't been able to see photos I put in the documents but it's really random so, who knows. thanks for the explanation though. Jen. Hi Jen: Well, chances are, if you send him .docx he will be able to read it. Microsoft pushed out a free upgrade for PC Word nearly two years ago that enables it to read and write .docx files. Most copies of PC Word are now updated. If that's not the case, you can, as you say, send a .doc file. You will get the compatibility error, and you can just ignore it. Unless you are doing interesting things with SmartArt or equations, the other end will never notice. The photos problem is probably a different bug! Pull the photos out and put them back in again, and chances are he will see them then. It's very annoying, I hope we get a fix soon. Cheers On 6/04/08 7:48 AM, in article ae163050-7253-4f4a-a032-b395e991ce33@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com, > thanks for that, when I said "guys" I meant you know, everyone - bad > wording on my part haha. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Jen. SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/ Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50 +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name I'm having the same problem. I work at a College where very few have upgraded to docx. It is not workable at all to send everyone docx and then have to resend. As other writers noted, changing the preferences does not work. Very annoying and time wasting. The best fix would be to have Word let you globally decide to ignore 6.0/95 issues. The danger of not doing the compatibility check, as I have found from experience, is that other issues can come up that do need to be fixed (watermark transparency settings is one that comes to mind). If there is no global fix on this that can be done from the user end, Microsoft should fix it as a patch. But I'm hoping someone has figured out a solution -- has anyone? Best, Dave PS Am running Word 2008 for Mac on Leopard. >Hi Jen: > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> >> Jen. |
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