[austechwriter] Re: Last Try - Word not saving
- From: Michael Edward Granat <megranat@xxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 16:26:26 +1000 (EST)
Could be an illegal characters file name issue in a long file name, Deborah
(Cross).
Try File > Save As... and give it a short and meaningful file name with
underscores instead of spaces and no non-alphanumeric characters.
Hope that helps.
Michael Granat
Write Ideas
Quoting Deborah Cross <Deborah.Cross@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Nope - no dialog boxes.
>
> I restarted the PC and deleted all the word temp files in the folder and
> =
> it still won't save when I make a change.
>
> File is 2326KB and majority of the images are linked to rather than =
> inserted. I have bigger files that work properly so I don't think that
> =
> is the issue.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elizabeth Fullerton [mailto:Elizabeth.Fullerton@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, 8 August 2003 4:19 PM
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [austechwriter] Re: Last Try - Word not saving
>
>
> There wasn't a dialog box sitting around behind some windows that needed
> to be dealt with first, was there? They can sometimes be difficult to
> detect because they don't show up in the taskbar or when you press
> Alt-Tab - try minimising each window, one at a time, and see if there's
> a dialog lurking.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deborah Cross [mailto:Deborah.Cross@xxxxxxxxxx]=3D20
> Sent: Friday, 8 August 2003 4:16 PM
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [austechwriter] Last Try - Word not saving
>
>
> OK - now that I am able to type a normal message I will try again! =
> =3D3D
> Sorry about that people I have no idea what weird and wonderful things =
> =3D3D
> my mail is doing.
>
> I have a document that just won't save in Word. No error message or =
> =3D3D
> anything - just click on Save or Save As and nothing happens.
>
> As a last resort I have moved the content into a new document and I can
> =3D3D
> save that, but there is some reformatting to be done, image alignment =
> =3D3D
> and numbered lists etc.
>
> Was wondering if anyone had come across this before and had any ideas?
> =3D3D
> It just seems to be that one document.
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