Re: Word 2004 crashes when cutting text - FIXED!!!

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From: Elliott Roper (nospam_at_yrl.co.uk)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:50:41 +0100

In article <2004083018163316807%nospam@nospamcom>, Tony
<nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

> Elliott,
>
> Wow, I just cannot believe it. YOU did the trick!
>
> The file (safer restored) that you sent me works fine and no longer crashes.
>
> So you just copy/pasted all contents except the last carriage return
> into a new Word file to fix it? Please, let me know so that I can fix
> these issues myself in the future. As said I could not do it because
> when I tried Word 2004 also unexpectedly crashed.

That's it.
>
> And in any case this is the kind of issues that I am experiencing with
> Word 2004 on a daily basis. Every few minutes Word 2004 unexpectedly
> quits. I was working on such Word file without a problem doing such
> copy/paste actions into the table at the beginning of the document. And
> then, suddenly it started to quit unexpectedly if I tried to copy or
> copy/paste text from the table cells.
>
> This is frustrating. I must do "Command S" every few seconds or
> minutes; whenever I type or copy/paste something because I am afraid of
> the Word 2004 unexpected quits (same with previous Word v.X versions on
> Mac OS X). I do not have activated any autosave or auto-recover feature
> because I guess it could be worse.
The *EVIL* one is in preferences -> save -> "allow fast saves" -- and
the more frequently you hit cmd-s, the quicker your file gets
corrupted.

If they are not going to fix it - it has been there and faulty for
years and years - might I suggest they rename it to "encourage frequent
crashes"

On the other hand, I am glad I had "save auto recover info" set, when,
a couple of weeks ago, a failing DVD drive dragged the power supply and
killed the machine. When I rebooted, my Word doc, which contained all
the changes I had made in discsussion over the phone with a colleague
that had lasted about 2 hours was almost all there in the 'recovered'
version. Apple were dead good with the warranty repair. It was exactly
3 days to the hour from the UPS guy bringing the empty box to me
getting my fixed Mac back.
 
> Why? I mean, why Word 2004 gives me all these nightmares when
> absolutely no other application (and I use dozens of them!) causes me
> any problem at all and never ever crash on my rock-solid Mac OS X
> 10.3.5 system? I mean also word processor applications with similar or
> identical files, including (always the latest versions):

You might now have a lot of similarly corrupted documents.
> --
> AppleWorks
> BBEdit
> Mariner Write
> Mellel
> Nisus Writer Express
> TextEdit
> TextWorks
> --
Wot no LaTeX?

> Note: if you are wondering, I use Word because my colleagues use it, th
> and and we must exchange documents.

I'm the same, but you gotta admit, Word *is* addictive. I imagine truck
racing would be similar.
>
> If my system was corrupted, then I guess I would have also problems
> with everything else, yet that is not the case.
>
> Any idea most appreciated.
>
> And many many thanks for your great help on this matter.
>
> You saved my day --I just could not work with the damaged file that you
> rescued-fixed for me!

A pleasure. Others on this excellent group have dug me outta holes more
than once. It is a kinda indirect payment. 

-- 
I thought I would be the last on earth to mung my e-mail address.
fsnospam$elliott$$

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