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Thanks to all of you who so quickly responded to my plea.
You may be interested to know that many of your recommendations were not the
issue. For instance, I had already checked that:
* Fast saves was turned off (never was on)
* I had the latest release of Office 2000
* That "Change Tracking" was turned off and any previous
changes had been accepted/rejected.
* I "saved as" a different file name
* Open a new document and copy/paste from the old one (except for
that last pesky paragraph mark)
(Yes, yes, the above list is passive and not parallel, but I'm seeing double
right now <g>)
The last suggestion was the only thing that worked, although I had to copy
*just* the text and then go back and paste-special/as picture the visio
drawings one by one from the original document.
