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Third time, and out! Eric Dunn provided some excellent suggestions, but
raised a few more questions:
I suggested fixing "fast saved" documents by copying all the text except the
final paragraph marker, pasting it into a new file, then
saving the file. Eric wondered: <<That's only in the case the files are
corrupted. Right? If the files are fine, turning off fast saves and doing a
save as should be fine.>>
Sometimes "save as" works, sometimes it doesn't, and I've never been able to
pin down what causes this. But the copy/paste trick works every time.
<<I'm reading the articles in the WOW newsletters about MSWords XML features
with a lot of interest. Ultimately, it may be the best workflow to breakdown
the information being produced into the smallest manageable granularity and
work in XML in MSWord with the appropriate schema/dtd etc. Then, a better
formatting/layout/production tool (Framemaker, Epic, etc) can then be used
to assemble and produce the final output.>>
I have two reservations about this. First, Microsoft always takes three
tries to "get it right", and their XML implementation is currently version
0.9--I'd wait until at least the second release before relying on this in a
production environment. Second, if the goal is to achieve something like
revision tracking, Word's the only game in town. (WordPerfect can work too,
but the original poster is using Word.)
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