Re: Word 6.0 documents in Word 2004

On May 2, 1:14 am, "John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]"
<j...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Gordon:

Issue? what issue?? :-) This is the first time I have heard of your
particular issue. (I was joking, by the way: I am sure you have an issue --
it's just that this is the first I have heard of it, and I suspect that the
issue is with her file system, not withWord...)

A couple of things interest me: 1) You mentioned "Fast Saves". This
control should ALWAYS be OFF. If it is on, it will lead to document
corruption. It's a hold-over from the days of floppy disks and causes the
file to be written to the disk in a different (and very fragile...)
structure. Worddocuments should never be written to floppy disks (if you
must transport them on floppies, use the Finder to copy them). And "Fast
Saves" are actually slower than "ordinary saves" on anything except a
floppy.

She should also have "Always make backup copy" enabled. This will give her
two copies of every document. But if you do not have that setting enabled,Word is trying to write to the file it has open for reading: in other words,
it is trying to replace the content of a file it has already opened. This
is likely to cause problems if it is also trying to re-express it in a
different binary format.

Tell her to create a new folder: Word2004 Copies, and save the new versions
in there.

I would also be interested to check what her "Default" save format is. If
it is set toWord6/95 you can guarantee trouble. It should be set to the
current version.

Cheers

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"Gordon" <aspar65-...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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John- your assistance is appreciated. We have been trying, after the
simple Save command failed, to use File, Save As,WordDocument, and
forcing the save. It all "falls down" when the overwrite prompt
appears, and we reaffirm the wish to overwrite. This relaunches the
compatibility dialog. Wordhas been told to ignoreWord6/95 as a
compatiblity issue, and to never raise the issue again. The "looping"
continues.

We have not tried making a filename alteration to avoid overwrite
dialog. However, I'm not sure she wants to end up with two copies of
a 100 or more documents w/ minor name changes. Maybe creating a new
folder, temporarily changingWord'sdefault save folder to that one,
and then going through and doing Save As would recreate all of the
documents in updated format.

I have also considered simple putting all of them on a flash drive and
doing the Save As marathon on a PC runningWord2003. Anything that
would break this loop.

I did find a post in this group referring to this problem. That
individual "solved" it by cutting and pasting the old text into new
Worddocuments, then deleting old documents. What a pain.

Word2004 is approximately 3 years old - wouldn't anyone have fixed
this issue yet? (Rhetorical question)

Thanks again,

Gordon- Hide quoted text -

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I have now tried saving MS Word 6.0/95 documents in OSX 10.4 using
Word v.X.

To update a document to current Word format, in the same folder,
with the same name, I simply said Save As, then I was prompted about
overwriting
the current file, then I was prompted that I was going from Word
6.0/95 to the current
format. Answering both prompts in the affirmative allowed me to save
the
document without either renaming the document or saving it to a
different location.

Then, just to see what would happen, I tried the same routine in
Classic, using Word
98. Once again, two prompts and the deed was accomplished.

When using Word 2004, I have an endless loop (see thread) unless I
save the document in a different
location and then, afterwards, drag it back to where I want it by
using the Finder.

This isn't impossible, only inconvenient.

Is there any way for a person who is not a sofware developer, and
lacks any affiliation with Microsoft,
to report an annoyance like this one? It seems unfortunate that the
latest product is one that is
proving problematic, especially when the task seems like such a
mundane one : saving a file.

Gordon

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