Yes Andy, you will have a few issues. I wish someone had
warned me about all of these before I had to figure them
out for myself:
1) If the documents use heading or non-heading numbered
styles, you will need to open each doc, click on the first
numbering level, choose bullets and numbering, customize
and make sure that the tab space after is showing either
0" or the location of where the style has an intentional
tab setting. This is how MS got around the Jason tabs
thing. The Jason tabs (so named because like Friday the
13th, the bad automatic tabs just keep coming back), is
not really fixed, but just rerouted to this location for
the user to have more control.
You will need to do this for each level and each style in
the docs.
If you have any templates adding numbering styles to
documents, make sure you revise the numbering template as
stated above. I actually had to use the numbering macros
I created and start a new fresh doc, then save it over the
old template in order for the styles to behave properly
without Jason tabbing me to death.
2) If you are doing any programming moving to the next
headers and footers, you will definitely need to revamp
the VBA code. Go ahead and try it first, but you more
than likely will have errors.
3) If you are doing any graphics insertion into any
headers/footers, you need to actually allow the user to
see that portion of the execution. You can turn off
screen updating immediately thereafter, but if you don't
turn it on for the graphics, you will spin your wheels re-
doing code forever wondering why the graphics is winding
up in the document and not the header...
4) XP does not handle a lot of tables in a document well.
If you are using tables in the footers in long documents
to provide better spacing control (other than pleadings),
take them out.
5) XP doesn't handle a lot of bells and whistles
functionality well. If you have a document with a table
of contents and an index of some sort, make sure that
either the table or the index, but not both, is utilizing
hyperlinking. If you leave hyperlinking on one of them
and not the other the docs behave much better.
6) There is a little nuisance setting in Tools, Options,
Save tab that refers to Disable features after Word 97.
If you try to use nested tables, or other formatting
features that were not an option in Word 97, Word will
change the formatting in your document when you save it.
I have turned off this feature on my user's normal
templates. However, if you plan to email docs back and
forth with people who are still using Word 97, then you
might want to leave it on.
That's about all I can come up with at the moment. Hope
this helps.
Denise
