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Rule #1 for large, crashing Word files is: Maggie the document first,
and then we'll talk. To "Maggie" is to copy everything except the final
paragraph mark and paste into a new doc, and save it with a new name. If
there are section breaks, you need to copy-and-paste one section at a
time, so you eliminate each section's final paragraph mark.
Your problem might not be the styles, which you can see. You *can't* see
what's hidden in those final paragraph marks, but what's hidden there
can cause your document to crash on any PC, no matter how much memory
it's got.
-- Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirk Turner
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:43 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: HELP! A monumental pickle
>
> I have a serious problem that I hope sounds familiar to someone out
> there...
>
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