re: opening documents created with words97 with words2000
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 9:33 am
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Posted by gewg_
(3925 messages posted)
|I was doing this for a friend who now is running XP,
|and who saved this file with windows98se.
| Reuven Ben-Daniel
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The operating system shouldn't matter.
Indeed, the combination and sequence you note
should never cause the slightest rustle.
(Systems running NTFS should have no problem with any form of FAT).
|Checking 2 of his other files( part of a series) they opened perfectly.
|I do not understand perfectly, but according to Microsoft,
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A link to the page you found with this information would be nice.
These posts are archived by this site and are indexed by Google, Yahoo, etc.
In the future, someone may have an indentical query
and a *complete* accounting of the process would be valuable.
|...if you are composing a document on Words...
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That's "Microsoft Word" (singular).
|...and you do some action,which is perfectly legitimate,
|and you save whilst under this action without returning to the normal mode,
|the document will open with squares.
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Again, a link to that description would be useful.
|so it appears that this file is lost!
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The way M$Word files are saved is just ridiculous.
A snapshot is taken of the RAM holding the data.
As M$ operating systems don't separate *instructions* from *data* in RAM
(or even *data from App1* from *data from App2*),
document corruption is quite common.
It's a shame that this lousy proprietary paradigm has become "the standard"
for formatted text documents.
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