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

  • From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 01:04:49 -0600

How often do you defragment and check disk?  When I was a power user I 
defragmented often, and checked disk weekly, now just about once  a week defrag 
and once a month check disk.

Valerie


On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:51 PM, Debby Franson wrote:

> Hi Cindy!
> 
> Sometimes I have my browser, either Internet Explorer or FireFox open or 
> Eudora or OpenBook at the same time as Word, but sometimes Word is the only 
> app open and I still get those crashes as often.  It breaks my concentration 
> when I had to close Word and then open it and the file and find my place.
> 
> I power down my PC every night.
> 
> Debby
> 
> At 07:21 PM 1/3/2010, Cindy wrote
>> 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
>> 
>> Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and 
>> books-being-scanned list available at sites below
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
>> 
>> Books Being Scanned List: 
>> https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
>> 
>> 
>> --- 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
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Jamie in Michigan
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