I work in an organisation producing 200-page (and more) Word documents on a regular basis. Much of the content is copy-paste from PDF-documents, which tend to transfer a lot of formatting as well, such as table layouts and Adobe Type-1 fonts. Add the spice of multiple authors and "track changes", and you can approach the idea...:-) Almost without exception, those documents will need at least one rescue operation during the production phase.
Over the years, this has taught me three things. 1. There is NO substitute for a good backup system. 2. It's amazing what you *can* recover from a seemingly damaged Word-file. 3. No user will ever understand that they can improve their odds by changing their own behaviour. :-) Jostein 2008/2/28, David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > > > I just had an email from a student in the on-line course I am > > teaching: "Dr. Halpin, I have a huge problem. My computer crashed > > with my paper on it. I will try to get it in by Friday but I have to > > rewrite the whole thing..." > > > > No matter how things change, they stay the same. > > Reminds me of the time that Word was quietly writing a corrupted file > to disk every time I saved. Luckily I discovered this before it was > too late and saving the document as a new file worked. > > If I hadn't noticed I would have eventually ended up overwriting my > backup copy with the corrupted file :/ > > - Dave > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
