Paragraph Alignment and Justification different in Word 2003 and 2010

Question

Hi all,
We are migrating some letter templates from word 2003 to word 2010 for our system and we found a alignment problem in word 2010 (actually, it is not a problem and I think the behavior in 2010 is correct)
In word 2003, the following paragraph alignment will display like this :
"To enjoy your membership in our service center, please remit a payment of US$
123456789.00 per annual"
In word 2010, the following paragraph alignment will show like this
"To enjoy your membership in our service center, please remit a payment of
US$ 123456789.00 per annual"
(US$ 123456789.00 is shown on same line in 2010 but US$ and dollar amount are not
on the same line in 2003)
Although I think the paragraph alignment in 2010 is more reasonable, I still want to achieve back
the look in 2003 such that we can easily to compare results.
As in one post that I asked help in this forum, one expert shows me that there is option to set back the layout
look behavior in 2003, I guess if there are some advance settings to achieve this?
Please kindly advise to me on this.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Ray

Answer 1

There is a difference, but it turns out to be a "2-factor" one. As far as I can tell, "enabling an 'east asian' language for editing" is the other factor. When you create
a document with such a language enabled, wrapping of currency amounts works differently in Windows Word 2007 and later. Once created, the problem seems to occur even on copies of Word that only have (say) English enabled.
In Word 2003, having such a language enabled for editing appears to make no difference.
Whether "enabling of an 'east asian' language is the cause of the problem described by the OP, or the only thing that will result in such a difference, I cannot tell.
Here, I tested roughly as follows:
 a. back up normal.dot/normal.dotm
 a. open Word 2010 and ensure only English is enabled as an editing language
 b. create a new document 
 c. Type 
" $          a"
(space, $, 10 spaces, "a", no quotation marks).
 d. Type text + spaces before that, until the "a" wraps onto the next line.
 e. save and close that
 f. enable (say) one of the Chinese languages for editing.
 g. restart Word
 h. repeat (b)-(d). This time, I think you will see that the $, 10 spaces and the "a" wrap as a unit.
 i. Save that.
 j. disable the East Asian language again and restart Word. Open each document and see how the wrapping behaves.
Here, I happen to have Chinese enabled as one of the editing languages in my copy of Word 2003 and I do not see the "wrap as a unit" behaviour in that case, or in either
of the two .doc fiels saved from Word 2010.
Here, the behaviour appeared to be the same whether I used $, £ (UK pound sign) or the Yen character symbol, but not the Euro currency symbol.
I saved my test files (including some created in Word 2003) in 2007 XML format and tried to pin down the significant difference. Per-dcoument compatibility settings
didn't seem to be involved. Changing the w:eastAsia language attribute in the following element in the styles.xml file was enough to change the behaviour:
<w:styles><w:docDefaults><w:rPrDefault><w:rPr><w:lang ...
Peter Jamieson