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Subject:RE: A doozy even for Word From:quills -at- airmail -dot- net To:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:44:13 -0500
By any standards I am a Professional Word user. And my experience has
been extremely disappointing.
Scott
At 2:50 PM -0400 10/29/08, Dan Goldstein wrote:
>Tammy: You might consider posting your query to the Word-PC list, where
>Word 2007 guru Christine Kent holds court. Given that you originally
>assigned specific styles to paragraphs, I'd bet a Snickers that you
>don't have to go the paragraph-by-paragraph route (WADR to Pro
>TechWriter).
>
>Scott: File size has nothing to do with it. Professional Word users
>create stable Word documents with hundreds of pages and multi-MB files.
>You might want to check out
>http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/CorruptDoc.htm, where you can learn
>the actual causes of Word file corruption: Master Documents, Nested
>Tables, Versions, Fast Saves, Document Maps, etc. Among the solutions
>for Word file corruption are the "Maggie" and the "Open and Repair"
>functions. It turns out that Word file corruption is pretty rare -- but
>it's the default diagnosis on TECHWR-L...
>
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