Word 2007, tables, and making them "behave" like Word 2002

[mrtvtl]

Here's a weird one for everyone...a series of documents were created
in Word 2002 a few years ago in my office that were improperly
formatted. Among other things, excess characters in table rows such
as paragraph breaks were completely ignored. As a result, a document
containing a 3 column x 2 row table fit exactly on 2 pages.

Along comes Word 2007...which I had to install on someone's machine
because she was receiving a lot of .docx files from people via email.
All of a sudden, Word formats the table rows across multiple pages,
has trouble with one image (which is easy enough to solve by removing
the image and replacing it), and turns what was a 2-page document into
an illegible 7-page document.

The documents can be fixed...but the person who messed them up doesn't
want to hear "the problem isn't Word, but in the documents" because "I
haven't got all day to fix these documents" (which are 5-minute
fixes...and I've said it about 3 times). And I'm not about to
uninstall Word 2007 and put in Word 2002 due to what effectively
amounts to improperly formatted documents.

Basically, all I'm looking for is a way for Word 2007 to behave with
the "forgiveness" of Word 2002. In other words, for the documents to
act as they did in the previous version. Is this even possible? And
why does Word 2002 forgive things that Word 2007 does not?

 

[SandyH]

Try this.

Click the Office Button and click Word Options. Click Advanced and scroll
down to Compatibility Options. By Lay out this document as if created in and
click the down arrow and select Microsoft Word 2000.

 

[mrtvtl]

Try this.

Click the Office Button and click Word Options. Click Advanced and scroll
down to Compatibility Options. By Lay out this document as if created in and
click the down arrow and select Microsoft Word 2000.








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Thanks, Sandy...but no luck. It looks exactly the same.