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Subject:Re: Fast saves - Word From:Marc Santacroce <santa -at- TFS -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 5 Jun 1995 11:47:32 -0800
>There's another side effect to Fast Saves. Many programs which claim to read
>Word-formatted files can't read "Fast Save" files.
>Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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Fast save has caused me problems in converting between Windows and Mac
formats. I don't know if the problem still exists with 6.0, but MS put out
a patrch to 5.1, called 5.1a that is supposed to solve any problems caused
by fast save. It seems to wrok, but to be safe, I just turn FS off.
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