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  Re: Ok, who didn't know, or at least guess this?  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 30 Jan 2009 09:40:21
Message: <49831155$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> heh seriously, it seems like any time I work on a non-trivial document 
>> more than the average letter Word begins corrupting the document. I 
>> wrote a huge document for an API I created, only to have word chew it 
>> to pieces as it saved. :/
> 
> Funny, we work continuously on 100+ page spec documents for all our 
> products in Word, and I don't recall ever having see any corrupted 
> ones.  It's not like they are simple, they are full of diagrams, tables, 
> photos, embedded CAD drawings, cross-references etc.
> 
> What version of Word is that you're using?
> 
> Did you try the "Open and repair" option and then resave it?
> 
> 

2003 I think.. yep. Open and Repair killed all the formatting and 
jumbled half the content. :) I was able to piece it together and 
reformat ... eventually .. but it seriously hosed the document.

-- 
~Mike


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