Word 2007

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Wade A

Using XP Pro service pack 3 - now Word 2003.
I read many discouraging reviews about Word 2007. I want to know if it
makes editing end notes easier than 2003. Nevertheless, does this group
think the new version is worth the money and the time to learn it?
 
It doesn't handle endnotes any differently; what do you find
troublesome about them?

What if you enter your notes as footnotes, and convert them to
endnotes after you're finished?

I upgraded to 2007 for two reasons. Primarily, it handles many more
scripts under Unicode than 2003 did (Unicode 5 rather than Unicode 2),
but that's a concern for very, very few users.

Second, it promised a bibliography tool that could do (some of?) the
things EndNote does. It proved to be a huge disappointment.

The new interface is definitely harder to use than the old one (more
clicks, it seems, to get to almost every command that you don't happen
to know the keyboard shortcut for), but the solution provided -- the
Quick Access Toolbar -- is an excellent alternative: you put on it the
20 or 30 commands you actually use, and they're always right in front
of you. (The new interface also insists on trying to do everything for
you, wasting vast amounts of space on "Galleries" that no one in their
right mind would want their documents to look like.)
 
word 2003 is very picky about eliminating spaces between end notes.
Sometimes it will, sometines it wont. And the choices on the end note
dialogue box is limited.
I have edited them within the text of the note iself, but still, taking out
the space between them is difficult, or impossible.
 
I've almost never used endnotes, and this problem doesn't occur with
footnotes, so have you looked at the Endnote Text style to remove any
Space Before or Space After that might be included as the default?

(To view the style, go to the Styles & Formatting panel, Ctrl-Alt-
Shift-S, click Options at the lower right, and in the first dropdown
choose All Styles. Find Endnote Text, right-click on it and choose
Modify > Format > Paragraph -- where I find that it comes with Space
After of 10 pt. Change it to 0. You'll probably want to go back to
showing Styles In Use so you don't see the dozens of built-in styles
you're not using.)
 
In Word 2003, "All styles" likely won't include Endnote Text (in Word 2003
"All styles" doesn't really mean *all* styles), so it will be necessary to
select Custom and click Styles... to get at the Styles dialog and select
Endnote Text.

Alternatively, with luck, Style... will be on the right-click context menu
in an Endnote Text paragraph, which provides direct access.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

I've almost never used endnotes, and this problem doesn't occur with
footnotes, so have you looked at the Endnote Text style to remove any
Space Before or Space After that might be included as the default?

(To view the style, go to the Styles & Formatting panel, Ctrl-Alt-
Shift-S, click Options at the lower right, and in the first dropdown
choose All Styles. Find Endnote Text, right-click on it and choose
Modify > Format > Paragraph -- where I find that it comes with Space
After of 10 pt. Change it to 0. You'll probably want to go back to
showing Styles In Use so you don't see the dozens of built-in styles
you're not using.)
 
No, if you look at the original question, he was asking whether upgrading to
Word 2007 (which he has not yet done) would provide an improvement over Word
2003 in this regard. AFAICS, it will not, so any help should be directed
toward helping him use Word 2003 effectively.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

(He asked how to make 2007 endnotes come out looking better than
2003's.)
 
Thank you Peter and Susan. I'll check out your suggestions regarding styles
(which have always been difficult for me) and learn - learn.
Wade A
 
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