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Hello,
As part of my dissertation project I have created countless tables in excel. Using the Save as PDF feature on Mac Office Word 2011 I created that tables as PDF's which I dropped into my word document and Cropped them down to size.
For some reason, when I open the word document on the PC, some of the info in the tables is randomly gone. Also, when we send the word file (with embeded PDF's) to a journal for publication they try to combine all the files as a PDF and the tables again lose data.
1) Why is this happening?
2) I also noticed that in Mac Word 2011 I had an option to "Save as Adobe PDF". when I select this option I am given several other options (see below) for the type of PDF that will be created. Which of these options would be ideal to overcome the problem listed above.
high quality print
oversized pages
PDF/A-1b:2005 (CMYK)
PDF/A-1b:2005 (RBG)
PDF/X-1a:2001
PDF/X-3:2002
Smallest File Size
Standard
Thanks,
Paul

Hmm -- one of my customers is a turkish building company
(Kusadasi BTW), and when *they* add some contents to the DB,
they´ll be entering turkish chars. It´s in particular the
turkish "I" which is pretty different, and this is when a search
for keywords containing a western "I" will fail.
Could that be the problem in your case ?

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