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>> Presumably Word crashes like hell for everybody else too,
>
> No.
Are you seriously suggesting that there are people for whom Word doesn't
crash?
>> (Last time I tried it, my copy of Word ended up permanently broken
>> until I erased my normal template and deleted a chunk of my per-user
>> registry.)
>
> Never heard of that before. Put your pointer inside a heading, then
> click the arrow next to that little box that says "Normal" at the top,
> and choose "Heading 1". Do that for all the titles. Then, to change
> that style, go to Format->Styles, click the little menu arrow next to
> the one you want to change and "Modify...". ANd then, once you've made
> your changes, it applies them to everything in the document with that
> style!!!! Clever eh?
I guess my mistake was in attempting to *change* the default styles. You
know, permanently. Seemed to screw up just about everything Word-related.
On the other hand, having to spent 20 minutes changing all the ugly
style defaults to what *I* want them to be every single time I open Word
just seems like way too much work...
>> Well no, they start with a blank report document that contains all the
>> section headings and standard text, already formatted.
>
> So it's not blank then ;-) Sounds to me like maybe that document is
> corrupt somehow, so every single "new" document they make still is based
> on this corrupt file. Try, just once, opening the file with "Open and
> repair" and then save it again. Then get them to use this one in future.
The documents built from this "blank report" document are reasonably
reliable. The ones built from customer-supplied templates tend to crash
incessently. So yes, I would imagine these templates are corrupted.
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