Re: Jealousy in the TW Workplace?

[Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>]

> I was talking to a secretary at my cubicle who was having trouble 
> with something in Word - that master subdocument feature. 
> I know from this list and from tons of research I have read that 
> years ago that feature was buggy/user un-friendly- so I say this 
> to the secretaryThis TW- comes RUNNING over across the walkway 
> from her cubicle - she was not even a part of the conversation. 
> "Well *I* got it to work." in a challenging way. 

If you wanted to be really mean, you could have said, "That's great, well you should be able to help (the secretary) with her document." Trying to fix a corrupted master document is a fast track to a nervous breakdown, especially if you don't know what you're doing. 

If you do ever need to do this, look here: 
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm 

Stuart 
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