Should I upgrade to 2007

[Michele]

I have some concerns about what I was reading on some of these posts. I use
Windows XP and will likely not upgrade to Vista. I currently have Pub 2003.
I use it extensively and send documents to my colleagues that also have 2003.
I had big problems when I went to 2003 and they remained at 2000. I work at
non-profit it is doubtful for some time that my colleagues will reaugrade to
2007 along with me. So I will be doing a lot of Save as 2003. How well does
the saving as 2003 work for my colleagues to review? It didn't work well with
the 2003 to 2000 method.
Also, what exactly are the incompatibilites with Adobe? This has been my
default program to PDF. I read that Adobe is not working well with
Vista...but what happens if I go to Pub 2007 - can I still use my Adobe
Acrobat 7?

 

[Ed Bennett]

So I will be doing a lot of Save as 2003. How well does
the saving as 2003 work for my colleagues to review? It didn't work well with
the 2003 to 2000 method.

No you won't: Publisher 2002, 2003, and 2007 share a common file format;
there is no "Save As 2003". That said, a few users have experienced some
problems opening files from one version in the other; I have had no such
issues myself.

Also, what exactly are the incompatibilites with Adobe? This has been my
default program to PDF. I read that Adobe is not working well with
Vista...but what happens if I go to Pub 2007 - can I still use my Adobe
Acrobat 7?

You can, but you cannot use PDFMaker, as far as I know. You can,
however, use the Microsoft Save As PDF And XPS add-in, which is more
functional and better-integrated than Adobe's PDFMaker ever was.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You don't have to save as 2003. Most all the features in 2007 are compatible
with 2003. All 2007 documents will open in 2003. You don't even have the option
to save as 2003.
You will still have to save as if you are sending to a 2000 recipient.

There is a PDF plug-in for Office 2007.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...11-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

It's not that Adobe doesn't work well with Vista or Office 2007. It's that
it's not supported yet. It will be but just not today. I've found that
PrimoPDF works fine with Pub 2007 and that'll do until Acrobat is patched. I
can use Acrobat 8 in everything else.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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[minnguy42]

Personally, I wouldn't. I upgraded to Publisher 2007 from Publisher 2003.
Today, I just wanted to print sheets of business cards. Publisher 2007 did
not print the cards correctly. It used the wrong margins. There was no
intuative way to correct the problem. Here are the help file directions from
Publisher 2007 to print to Avery, etc. sheets:
IStart Microsoft Office Publisher.
In the Publication Types list, select Labels.
Click Blank Sizes, and then scroll down until you see the name of the
manufacturer of your label product, such as Avery, HERMA, or Printec.
Click the manufacturer name.

The labels templates do not include business cards as a choice and if you
click business cards, it only gives you design option "templates" for
different colors and fonts in designing the cards, nothing about printing
them.
I was printing to Avery 8370 business card sheets. Fortunately, I kept
Publisher 2003 on another computer, I could print out the business cards
using it with no problem. Why go through the frustration. Publisher does not
even use the ribbon bar and the help file was of little help. I wasted 30
minutes of my life for what should have been done automatically. Left screen
choices that exist in 2003 are absent in 2007. With 2003 I could choose to
print one or a number is items per sheet. I fiqure it will take another hour
or so to find out how fix this, assuming that it is possible.

 

[Mary Sauer]

I can understand your frustration with the print options in Publisher 2007.