Re: Peculiar document corruption; Update

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From: WJ Shack <wjshack@xxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:52:27 -0500
Conversation: Peculiar document corruption; Update
Subject: Peculiar document corruption; Update

Update: the problem seems to occur only when I am working with track changes
on.

Mac OS X 10.4.5 Word 11.2

Documents become corrupted in a peculiar way when I work on them on my Mac.
If I start with a uncorrupted document and work on it for a while, I find
that all the entries in my Autotext and all the addresses in my Entourage
address book end up as Styles. This makes my list of Styles very long and
makes it very difficult to choose a style from a list by scrolling. The
address book entries are all the same format, the autotext entries again all
have the same format, but a different one from the address book entries.
Since I have keystrokes or toolbar buttons defined for my most common
styles, it is not totally unworkable, but obviously not good.

A new document will start out fine. I haven't figured out what operation I
do that trigger the problem. The corrupted document isn't unstable. Unless
one opens the Style list, there is no sign of a problem.

I have "Exclude Contacts" checked in my autotext, and my Entourage address
book doesn't multiply in my autotext as it did in the earlier version of
Word for OS X. The entries do multiply in the style list though, some
addresses will have many styles designated by a number after their name.

Any suggestions, has anybody else observed this happening?



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