OLE Word 2000 modified with Word 2003 causes formatting problems

[SCROSLEY]

I'm wondering if anyone else has come across this;

In my office we OLE word documents into a Acad file for use as a spec sheet.
This worked well after some fine tuning, our word documents were created using MS office 2000.
We got some new computers that have widows xp and office 2003 pro, now when we open the acad files some of the OLE objects are distorted or do not view correctly (cropped).

The OLE images of the word files will look fine (the one created with word office 2000) until the word document has been modified in word office 2003.

The only fix I could find is to replace the old OLE with a new OLE of a new word document created by office 2003. This can be time consuming because the are many OlE's per acad sheet.

Is this a MS office issue? there tech support says no but...

[Mike.Perry]

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Is this a MS office issue? there tech support says no but...

Hi

From what you have written I would tend to say it is related to the newer version of MS Office.

I honestly don't know for certain, but I would guess Word 2003 format is different to Word 2000 format.

I realise the file formats are different, but I am thinking more like how the data is stored and formatted between the two different versions.

Have a good one, Mike