Re: Word Problems

[Meredith Hoffman <humantch -at- TIAC -dot- NET>]

At 4:42 PM -0500 1/29/98, Barry House wrote:
>>
>>I am working working with Word documents that were converted from the
>>Macintosh to PC.  I am having a miserable time with the headers and
>>footers.  Wanted to find out if others of you are having similar problems.
>>
>>When I edit the header or footer, although it looks fine, one of two things
>>happens when I close the header/footer view or sometimes when I save and
>>exit the document and reopen it:
>>
>>1.  Characters disappear, or
>>2.  Strange characters show up in the middle of words or before page numbers.
>>
>>I can go back into the header or footer and edit them.  Sometimes the edit
>>works, sometimes the pesky additions or deletions recur.
>>
>
>I haven't had exactly that problem, but I've had weird problems on the Mac
>side when I've worked with converted files. One fix that has worked for me
>is to disallow fast saves. In Word 97, select Options from the Tools menu.
>Then click on the Save tab in the dialog box and uncheck the "Allow fast
>saves" box.

When you save the source doc before moving it to the other platform, do a
Save As ... instead of a regular Save, and choose to overwrite the previous
version. This cleans up the buffered incremental saves of the file, and it
may solve this problem, too.

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