Re: RoughDraft Word processor + Dangers

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Posted by ureadit
2006-01-06 13:39:00

Through long experience with MS WORD, including the creation of documents with tables, graphics and equations, I NEVER create a long document in the form of a single file. WORD file corruption is a far-to-frequent occurrence, and once corruption occurs in even a small part of a WORD document it tends to metastasize throughout the document, sometimes making the entire document unrecoverable to a “clean” state. Cutting and pasting into a new, blank document often just transfers the infection.

Another danger occurs in emailing the document. Fonts and formatting are frequently changed…and, unless you read the entire document, you may not aware of these corruptions.

I produce complex documents in sections/chapters with each as a separate WORD file and then zip them together into one compressed file.

-sc

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