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Subject:Re: Word killed my format.... From:"Margaret Secara" <margaret -dot- secara -at- alphather -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 17 May 2002 13:19:22 -0700
Very weird, Sean. This same exact thing happened to me just before lunch today. I don't have a clue what really happened. I closed and saved. The hourglass hummed for a bit. Nothing else happened. I'm on NT, so I checked the Task Manager. Word is not responding. OK, killed it, expecting to coe back to a few missing edits, but I save regularly as I work, so no bigg deal, right?
Nope. When I went to open th4e doc, word told me it detected some corruption, did I want to continue. And when it finally opened, no formatting. A happy little text file with a .doc extension. Happily I found a .tmp backup from late yesterday that opened sweetly, so I've only lost this morning's little bit of work. I copied all but the last paragraph mark into a new doc, just in case.
Just thought I'd cheer you up by letting you know I share your pain. :)
Maggie Secara
~Word happens
(souvenirs at www.cafepress.com/wordsinarow )
>>> Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> Thursday, May 16, 2002 >>>
Hi all.
Something strange just happened to one of my word docs.
I was working on a doc, and click the close button. Because I hadn't saved it, I got the typical "Do you want to save your changes" prompt. I clicked yes. I came back to the doc a few minutes later and opened it. It now looks like a plain text file. All of the styles are gone, the tables are gone. The graphics are gone. It's looks like a happy little text file with a DOC file extension.
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