Why is Pagination Different with Windows Word 2003 & Mac Word 2004

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rjonas

I work on Word documents on both the Windows XP and Mac OSX platforms with
Word 2003 for Windows and Word 204 for the Mac.

When I open a document created in Windows on the Mac the pagination is often
different by a line or two. This happens even when I use standard fonts like
Ariel or Verdana which are installed on both machines. Why does this happen?
Can this be fixed? I need to see the document the same on each machine.

Any thoughts are welcome.

Thanks
 
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Jay Freedman

I work on Word documents on both the Windows XP and Mac OSX platforms with
Word 2003 for Windows and Word 204 for the Mac.

When I open a document created in Windows on the Mac the pagination is often
different by a line or two. This happens even when I use standard fonts like
Ariel or Verdana which are installed on both machines. Why does this happen?
Can this be fixed? I need to see the document the same on each machine.

Any thoughts are welcome.

Thanks
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Since you're never going to get the same printer driver to run on the
same platform, you're almost always going to run into this problem, as
explained in http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm.

Can you make a PDF of the document on one machine and transfer it to
the other? Or do you have to be able to edit the document in both
environments?
 
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rjonas

Jay, I need to edit the document on both platforms and if the pagination
changes that could potentially, but not necessarily, cause me a problem.

Thanks for responding so fast.

Ron
 
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Guest

I work around this problem by using Acrobat Distiller as the default printer on
all machines I use for common documents.

It might be worth trying this trick.



Steven
 
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