Resending this under the correct (today's) date,
I had the clock on my machine changed for documentation work I'm
doing ...
Neil.
On 28/06/2011 10:02 AM, Neil Maloney wrote:
I very strongly agree with all of Christine's
comments in her recent post, especially the comments below.
Having said that, please note, I have a client who over the last
year has managed to end up with two Word 2007 documents corrupted
... and because they were built in Word 2007, which I don't have a
copy of, I was not able to help in recovering the documents – Word
2003 "compatibility mode" fell over badly in trying to open the
documents under any conditions, including Open and Repair. So,
from experience, Word 2007 isn't free from document corruption.
(And at no time did these documents come anywhere near Word 2003,
until they were individually sent to me to try to recover.)
When we get into discussing the more technical aspects of using
Word, for example the things that tend to cause document
corruption, if it is going to happen – and it rarely does, but how
frustrating is it, and how difficult is it to recover a document
when it does happen – then I had thought that everyone on the list
would be aware that it is a "more technical" discussion which may
be of interest but not of direct relevance to others on the list.
The basic rule I am assuming (!) that everyone follows is, before
opening and editing a document, create a back-up file (e.g. a zip
file) in case something goes wrong, and include e.g. a date and
time in the filename to make it unique, giving a series of files
that can be reverted to in need.
Being one of the offenders over time, I apologise to anyone on the
list who has become worried about using any version of Word
because of any of the posts or comments I have made.
Cheers,
Neil.
On 18/07/2011 9:37 AM, Christine Kent wrote:
It is unfair of you “experts” to continue
terrorise less experienced users when most of that fear is
baseless.
Firstly, almost all the
problems are experienced by advanced users who push the
product to its absolute limits. Novice to average users will
rarely knock the product over.
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