Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I'm a copyeditor and practically live in Word each day. For quite a while,
I've used v.X, and have just recently upgraded to 2008.
Most of my current projects were edited with v.X.
I finalized changes in a 300-plus page document (there were no comments),
then gave the Word file to my layout artist.
When the proof came back, some, but not all, of the changes appeared in
the document.
Example
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Original: John were going town.
Changes (deletions in square brackets; additions in angled brackets): John
[were] <was> going <to> town.
After finalizing changes: John was going to town.
The final version looked right with Track Changes on and off, onscreen and
in print.
My layout artist im****ted the Word file into Quark XPress. Here's how the
layout read:
John were was going to town.
No colors, no strikethrough.
I've had to read every word of a 300+plus page document twice more than I
usually do to make sure all of these errors (which shouldn't be there at
all) are caught.
I'm frustrated.
My question (finally): Is there anything 2008 can do to help fix this
problem?
For instance, would somehow processing the changes via 2008 instead of v.X
do any good?
It's entirely possible that this is a Quark error. I haven't seen this
happen but once, so I don't know if it's a fluke. But you can see, I hope,
why I feel the need to preemptively strike before giving another large
project to my layout artist -- who, btw, is switching to InDesign.
Thanks for reading all of this, and any help you can give.
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