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[ at ]hotmail.com" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > 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?
>
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