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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2008Office Mac to Windows compatibility issues
Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Processor: intel Good Afternoon, I use a stand alone version of Word for Mac. my O/S and my Word app are fully updated and my permissions have been verified. I am using postscript type 1 fonts and my client has bough PC versions of these same fonts. My email attachments, via Apple Mail are always Windows friendly and the file extension is always on. When saving my Word docs I always get the get the statement that the format is shared by Word 97 through Word 2003 and Word 98 through Word 2004 for Mac. I have emailed this doc to one PC using XP pro with Word 2003 and another PC using XP with Word 2000. In both situations one of the three fonts I use is substituted despite theoretically being available, also one major element on the page, a table, is repositioned on the page which causes the text area to reposition. I would appreciate help with this problem, gut feeling starts with the font change many thanks I think you have two problems. 1) The easy one is the table. I think you have set the table wrapping style to be something other than "Inline with text". If you do that, the table will move when the text resizes. The text will re-size when the font resizes. Go to Table>Table Properties, and set the Text Wrapping to "None". Then use the paragraph properties of the paragraph that the table is sitting on to move the table where you want it. Then it will stay there. 2) The second one is a bit harder. It may be that you have an old non-Unicode Macintosh version of the font. Or it may be that the client has not installed the font in the correct way. Word will substitute a font only if it can't FIND the original. It could be that the font is the wrong type, the wrong name, or in the wrong place. Without having a copy of the font and the document, I can't say much more. If you were to visit the client and thump them, hard, things may improve :-) There were no changes between Word 2000 and Word 2003 that would cause this, and Word 2004 uses the same file format as both 2000 and 2003. Sorry: Without seeing the problem, I can't help further. Cheers On 22/04/08 3:57 PM, in article ee9934e.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > Version: 2004 > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > change > many thanks  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, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name > I think you have two problems. > [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac > Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:j...@mcghie.name G'day John, Thanks for your response to my post. Our foundry has sent us an OpenType version of the suspect font (Franklin Gothic No2) and I await the return of The Esteemed Client from Brisbane - about a week. Can't thump this client mate, she's bigger than me! However your 'wrong place' could be a reason for the substitution. If the OpenType font installs and sets correctly then the table may not reposition. This document, the first of a number to be designed in the same style is my first wobbly step outside the Quark Compound, so bloody-minded persistence has to be applied - as always. I realise that without seeing the layout and checking the construction dialogues it's impossible to give a definitive opinion, but if I set the text wrapping style for the table to 'None' I lose the the option of 'Repositioning' which I need to place it accurately. 'None' only allows cell margins and spacing options. Hopefully the new font will solve the table movement. On another issue, I posted my question (twice? don't ask) in the Mactopia product forum and expected to see it displayed on that site. By accident, I later (25th Apr) discovered it listed on this site with your response. It's still not up on Mactopia. For future reference and to paraphrase Ms Hansen, 'Please explain'. Sincerely, with thanks, R.Platt G'Day Mate (We tend to use names in here -- it's an easy way to distinguish the professionals from the w**kers...) :-) I have those clients. Where percussive attitude readjustment is "unavailable", there are other ways. Chocolate has been known to work... If you set the table properties to "none" the table is then sitting on the paragraph below it. If you position the paragraph, you position the table :-) Relying on Word documents to remain intact on someone else's computer is a short trip to the funny farm. It's not going to happen. The text will always reflow if the wind changes. That's the way Word Processors operate :-) Everything is stacked, character by character, beginning in the top left corner of the document, with offsets as per the properties of the paragraphs. For this kind of thing, there are methods you can use to set objects at absolute positions. For tables: you can set absolute positions, but if you do, then your text is going to get the wanders. Better to set the table inline and position the paragraph :-) If you absolutely MUST use floating tables, come back and we'll have a little chat about anchors. It's all pretty simple stuff for a Quark/InDesign pilot, once you know how Word works. I have no explanations for MacTopia. All I can say is that they are working assiduously on it, and it's already a thousand times less likely to do impressions of a headless chook than the Windows version :-) We have a different vendor building it on Mactopia, and they are much much more responsive. Dodgy coders, but at least they RESPOND! We can get a new build every week: not like the poor Windoze Weenies who get two updates a year of they're lucky! Now: Most of the volunteers helping here are using a newsreader (Entourage has one built-in) to pick this forum up direct from msnews.microsoft.com. If you think you might be spending a bit of time with us, give us a blip and we'll show you how to set it up. Actually, in Entourage, it already IS set up, all you have to do is subscribe to microsoft.public.macintosh.word :-) Ah! I just noticed. You're posting in through Google Groups. Yeah, they only peer every four hours or so, and they peer to the news server. From the news server, Microsoft slurps the stuff into an SQL Server, then uses that to re-populate out to Mactopia and the NNTP groups. We have a bug at the moment where Mactopia doesn't always see the stuff Google sends in. Cheers On 26/04/08 4:42 PM, in article fceeea09-069f-4b8f-8dad-974713dba40f@m1g2000pre.googlegroups.com, >> I think you have two problems. >> [quoted text clipped - 87 lines] > > Sincerely, with thanks, R.Platt 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, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name > G'Day Mate (We tend to use names in here -- it's an easy way to distinguish > the professionals from the w**kers...) :-) [quoted text clipped - 149 lines] > John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac > Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:j...@mcghie.name G'Day again John, Am treading water 'till The Client returns and we are able to install the Opentype font. Doing a bit of trial and error work, will almost certainly be talking anchors. Will be in touch. Regards, Roy platt Hi Roy: No worries. OpenType should work fine on Windows. We sometimes get some issues with it in Word:Mac. Go figure :-) Cheers On 1/05/08 4:58 PM, in article 4652fdba-32b6-453b-a8e1-d914c9c6edeb@w1g2000prd.googlegroups.com, "pica" <ployratt@internode.on.net> wrote: >> G'Day Mate (We tend to use names in here -- it's an easy way to distinguish >> the professionals from the w**kers...) :-) [quoted text clipped - 166 lines] > certainly be talking anchors. Will be in touch. > Regards, Roy platt 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, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name |
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