[bksvol-discuss] Re: MS Word Crashes, WAS: Re: Re: Sighted proofer wanted

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:21:23 -0800 (PST)

I use Microsoft Word for the Mac, and it does frequently crash, usually when I 
have someyting like my being-scanned file open and am on the 'Net, 
too--sometimes when I'm proofing. I'm also invited to send a report to Apple, 
but on my husband's advice, now I don't bother. I just quit and  reopen the 
file I was working. Then I can work away with no problems for quite a while.
 Lately I've been quittng Word or Firefox and shutting down the computer when 
I'm going to be away from it for a while. It seems to me that it needs a rest. 
I seem o h ave fewer problems the next time I come back to work. My computer is 
pretty old. 

Cindy

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--- On Sun, 1/3/10, Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] MS Word Crashes, WAS: Re: Re: Sighted proofer  
> wanted
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 4:03 PM
> Hi Jamie and everyone!
> 
> This message reminded me of my problem.
> 
> Until I joined the volunteer community to proofread, I had
> been using MS Word very lightly, since most of my writing is
> e-mail rather than word processing.  Every book I have
> proofread whether it has been 100 and some odd pages, in the
> 200 or 300 range or larger, I can read for a while and then
> Word 2000 crashes, I get the offer saying that Word is not
> responding and to end the program, then Dr. Watson offers to
> have me send an error report to Microsoft.  Bruce, (my
> husband) suggested the file was too big, and to split it up,
> which was so inconvenient, so I have done most of my
> proofreading in Wordpad and loading it in Word at the end to
> check for page breaks and anything that Wordpad can't handle
> like that.
> 
> I'm running Windows XP Pro on a 3GHz machine with 2GB of
> Ram, I think and Window-Eyes 7.11.
> 
> How large a file can MS Word handle comfortably?  Has
> anyone other than Jamie had any kind of crash while
> proofreading?  My computer doesn't crash, though, just
> Word.
> 
> Debby
> 
> At 08:43 PM 12/28/2009, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote
> > Cindy, I'm wondering if you can work on this one, or
> another sighted proofreader? I don't know what is in the
> file but it keeps crashing my computer, like it's too big or
> something, but it's only just over 2.5 mb. CookWise was
> almost 3 times that big and I didn't have a problem with
> that. The one time I did get it to load in Word I couldn't
> scroll down and then Word crashed.
> > 
> > It's Copyediting and Proofreading for Dummies
> > 
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