Items in TOC change when Word2007 document is opened in Word2003

[JonTarg]

I notice that there is incompatibility between the way that Word2007 and
Word2003 compile tables of contents.

When a document from Word2007 is opened in Word2003, items that have been
excluded from the list of entries in the Word2007 version of the TOC are
nevertheless automatically included in the Word2003 TOC. When the document is
reexported to Word2007 from Word2003, the unwanted TOC entries remain present.

It appears that Word2003 is handling the heading level information in the
document differently than Word2007 does. Word2003 automatically assigns
header status to section titles that have intentionally been assigned "body
of text" status, in order to prevent them from appearing in the TOC.

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[Terry Farrell]

If you are running Word 2007 in its default docx mode and opening it in Word
2003 using the compatibility pack, then this is correct. Any Word 2007
features saved with the document will be ignored by previous versions.

However, if you are running Word 2007 in compatibility mode, then this
should not happen and is a bug.

Which way are you using it?

 

[JonTarg]

I am saving the document as a Word97-2003 .doc file in both Word2003 and
Word2007 at all times. JonTarg