> Odd. I use Word all day, every day. Save all manuscripts as docs and have > never had a problem.
I think it can get its panties stuck up its crack if the document template gets messed up. I've been using it day in, day out for donkeys' years and in most situations it seems to be ok if you can keep things simple. At the place I'm working now, though, they have it set up so that users can't set up and use their own default template and I find that the file sizes inflate really quickly for some reason which I haven't discovered yet. For example, a 5 page document containing only text and styles blew up to about 10mb for some reason. When I saved it as .rtf and converted back to Word it was about 75k, with no change to the content at all. I think the tech people at work have knackered something - various other aspects which work predictably at most other sites I've worked at are also knackered (but some of the knackerage I've seen elsewhere). Word is an overblown, buggy, unnecessarily complex mess. It seems to be quite fragile to being set up right or wrong. Fortunately, you can set it up so that it works simply and predictably, but once ignorant techs start messing around it quickly gets itself upf*cked. B -- 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.
