scott wrote:
>>> Did you try using "Open and Repair" from the open dialog box of Word?
>>
>> And how do you do that?
> 
> In the open file dialog, there's a little arrow right next to the "Open" 
> icon - click that and you get some further options, one of which is 
> "Open and Repair".

Hmm. I would have never, ever found that. Not in fifty years.

And who says nobody learns anything by having M$ rants? :-D

[insert HCI comment here]

>> [FWIW, I did spend quite a lot of time researching the options. 
>> There's a Word experts website that tells you all the little tricks 
>> for fixing corrupted documents. Sadly, none of them work for a 
>> document so broken it won't even open at all...]
> 
> IME "Open and Repair" opens documents that would normally be 
> unopenable.  It then gives you a list of document sections that are 
> corrupt, and makes the rest back into a working file.

The advice I read was stuff like saving the file in a different file 
format, cut and pasting everything except section markers into a new 
document, etc. Which would probably work if Word didn't instantly die as 
soon as it touches the file...

>> Yes. Because the only difference between IE and FF is tabbed browsing. 
>> It's not like FF is 98% more efficient or secure or 
>> standards-compliant or anything like that...
> 
> Most people don't care about that though, the only difference they see 
> (IME) is tabbed browsing, and of course the fact that some websites 
> don't work with FF.

You're probably right about that. [Although you'd think most people 
would notice how much faster FF is.] There are of course quite a few 
sites that work fine in FF but not IE. Just nowhere near as many as the 
other way round.

I still think one day M$ will have a big problem because they will 
release IE 28 and discover that all the old crap written for IE 4 
doesn't work any more...

> Hehe, seriously, did you ever wonder what it would be like to have a job 
> that didn't involve computers?  I wonder sometimes ...

Oh, that's easy. I'd be fired. Fairly rapidly.

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