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Subject:RE: Fun with Word From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:38:35 -0400
Yes, but he's using WORD to search the WORD documents, and its
"something other than Word" that actually _finds_ the offending phrases,
and it's WORD that fails to find them.
Irony is not the correct word here, but the correct word is not suitable
for public lists.
Kevin
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> Subject: RE: Fun with Word
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> It could be in unused headers and footers - i.e., the document has
them
> for a previously defined "different-first-page" or
> "different-odd-and-even" layout. This has happened to me before. I
found
> them by clearing and selecting these check boxes in turn, and *then*
> searching the headers and footers.
>
> It could also be in document properties - this has also happened to me
> before.
>
> Look at it this way: You're using Word to edit the files, but
something
> other than Word to search the directory.
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