At work, we're using Word 2010, but our proposal documents frequently go to and from authors using 2007. I am aware of some incompatibilty issues.

A member of our DTP staff has recommended using tables in our template headers and footers, set to 100%, rather than a width, so that the width will self-adjust when we have regular-size or tabloid landscape pages included in a regular (portrait) document. It's true that under deadline pressures, wrong-width headers can be missed, and are.

I encountered problems with this approach in large, long documents in Word 2003 days. The lack of needed section breaks with layout change was exacerbated, and occasionally, the headers or footers would just "blow-up" on us. I am writing to solicit any updated version recommendations anyone might have. I'm open to simplifying



Thanks.