Wikipedia's Office 2010 page lists the features removed from the most recent version of the suite.Ī 'standard' file format acts in a very non-standard wayīoth of the solutions to the Word file-formatting problem-resetting the default printer on both PCs and reverting to the. Microsoft's TechNet site describes the Compatibility Mode settings in Office 2010 and Office 2007, respectively. To prevent formatting errors when moving Word documents between the 20 versions of the program, change the default file format to the older non-XML. Choose All New Documents in the first drop-down menu and Microsoft Office Word 2003 in the second menu.

To do so in Word 2010, click File > Options > Advanced and scroll to 'Compatibility options' at the bottom of the window on the right. doc format by default instead of the newer. If you're willing to do without the new features of Microsoft's XML-based Office file formats, you can set Word to use the older. Microsoft provides a short video explaining how to change your default printer in Windows 7 the steps are similar in earlier Windows versions. Of course, this is a system-wide setting you change in Windows 7's Devices and Printers (Printers and Faxes in Vista and XP). The quick fix is to set both systems to use Adobe PDF as the default printer driver. (A post on the Microsoft Answers forum explains the problem in more detail.) Several people report spaces being dropped randomly from documents created in Word 2010 when the files are opened in Word 2007 on another machine. Well, compatibility problems have already surfaced between the two most recent releases of MS Word. Some readers took exception when I stated in a post from last month on future-proofing your data archive that Microsoft's proprietary Office file formats may not stand the test of time.

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