From: "Bob W"
Odd. I use Word all day, every day. Save all manuscripts as docs and have
> never had a problem.
I think it can get its panties stuck up its crack if the document template
gets messed up. I've been using it day in, day out for donkeys' years and in
most situations it seems to be ok if you can keep things simple. At the
place I'm working now, though, they have it set up so that users can't set
up and use their own default template and I find that the file sizes inflate
really quickly for some reason which I haven't discovered yet. For example,
a 5 page document containing only text and styles blew up to about 10mb for
some reason. When I saved it as .rtf and converted back to Word it was about
75k, with no change to the content at all. I think the tech people at work
have knackered something - various other aspects which work predictably at
most other sites I've worked at are also knackered (but some of the
knackerage I've seen elsewhere).
Word is an overblown, buggy, unnecessarily complex mess. It seems to be
quite fragile to being set up right or wrong. Fortunately, you can set it up
so that it works simply and predictably, but once ignorant techs start
messing around it quickly gets itself upf*cked.
I've never had problems opening Word documents on the same computer
where they were created.
It's when you have to use Word from Office 95 on a PC to open a document
originally created with Word from Office 2003 for Mac that you have
problems. Even when the document was specifically saved as an Office
95/97 document so it could be opened by the earlier version of the program.
Going from version to version or platform to platform, saving as a rich
text (.rtf) document just seems to work more consistently.
And if you do save as a .rtf file, you don't even need Word. You can
open it with Wordpad on a Windoze box.
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