Word is horrid for formatting and for newsletters. Why don't you have a look at Apple's Pages (part of iWork), which will read word files. It does a nice layout job, easily.
I suggest saving a backup of your newsletters to pdf, as a precaution. It might be you had some old files, and the problem was to do with an earlier word file format? Personally, I don't touch word unless forced to. And I never use it for tables, which always crash. I use Nisus which has a light elegance I like. Ranulph On 24 Mar 2009, at 19:37, Zanzibar wrote: > > Thanks Jason & Sam Having checked a few files following the transfer I > wiped the hard disc on my old G4 - I hope whatever is in there has > died a horrible death. > > TextWrangler works a peach at getting the text back..and has lifted > the veil for me as to what really goes on in Word documents.. Although > I get the text , it doen't look like I'm going to get the formating > back of some of the newletters I have lost. > But we like a learning experience.... > Zanzi > > > On 23 Mar, 23:04, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >> Zanzibar wrote on 23/3/09 at 21:02 >> >>> Does anyone have any suggestions? Has virus snuck in?..I don't use >>> any >>> antivirus software >> >> you could try other 'Word-savvy' apps like Nisus Writer and if >> the content is more important than the formatting you can >> probably recover the text with Textwrangler or BBEdit >> (www.barebones.com). Force them to open the files by dropping >> the files onto the app and holding down option command at the >> same time. It will have junk then the text, then junk again >> (probably). >> >> Sometimes I get a problem simply because there is no extension >> -- have you tried adding '.doc' to them? Simple I know, but it >> works here sometimes... > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
