At 11:26 PM 9/10/2007, John Howell wrote:
>This may not affect many, but it might if part of your life is
>writing for publication. The new Microsoft Office 2007 for Vista
Office 2007 runs on WinXP as well.
>produces Word files that are incompatible with any other version of
>Word. Several prestigious journals have already announce that they
>will not accept submission in the .docx format that is the default
>for WinWord 2007.
-snip-
>And note that even when your file is saved in the older .doc format,
>equations and special symbols are messed up.
This is all true, though slightly incomplete. First, please note that
DOCX is merely the default for Word 07, not the only format it can
save in. You can change this default so that Word saves all its
documents in DOC format. (The same thing happened, I believe, when
Word 97 came out and was incompatible with Word 95.)
Second, your comment about equations and special symbols probably
doesn't affect all that many people, as a proportion of Word users.
(Although it's interesting in light of our frequent discussions here
about backwards compatibility in Finale.)
Third, users of older Office versions on Windows can download a
compatibility pack from Microsoft which will let them work with the
new file version. That pack is available here:
http://sherber.com/url/18?office-pack
Finally, as the article you link to notes, there are third-party
converters that will run on Mac, and I imagine they will do a good
job converting non-complex Word documents.
Aaron.
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