I've used Word for newsletters cos its such a challenge trying to get ..and keep those photos in the right place.. But all criticism of Word gladly accepted. And yes, Time Machine is about to be formatted cheers Z
On 24 Mar, 20:52, Ranulph Glanville <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
