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Re: SuperNoteCard version 1.6 & MS Word
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Outliners.com Message ID: 3446
Posted by ureadit
2005-07-07 09:13:40
From my experience and that of others where I worked, might I suggest that either
1) do not combine smaller Word files into a large one
or
2) if you do combine them, do it as a very last step, keep the separate component files as backup, and do not make any revisions in the combined file, but only in the smaller components.
More than once we found that a component file somehow became corrupted and when it was combined with other files to creat a final document, it corrupted other parts of the document. This was most likely to occur when different people contributed parts of the final document. In one case, the editor ended up retyping the entire document—well over 100 pages.
Emailing a Word document can also cause it to become corrupted or to have fonts and formats changed, seemingly at random.
Personally, instead of combining the components (e.g., chapters), if I need a combined file, I just zip the components into one Zip file. My work includes a lot of equations (generated with MathType) and I have little desire to retype them all because of Word’s penchant for corrupting files.
-sc