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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