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Post #39,280
by acagle
5/20/02 12:36:11 PM
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New 'Nother bizarre happenstance.
The original Word 97 document I'm working with has been about 680k. Yesterday, I worked on it for a bit, started to save it to a floppy so I could bring it in to work, and lo and behold, it is 1.18MB! WTF?-1.0.

So I open it here at work, type in a space, and then save it. Back down to 680k. WTF?-2.1.

This is not comforting to me.

BTW, I think I need to bag using OpenOffice on this one. It's causing too many weird things to happen. Like a page ending about 2/3 of the way down and defying all attempts to make it do otherwise.
Post #39,366
by static
5/21/02 3:09:27 AM
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New Fast Save?
For a few versions of Word, Fast Save defaulted On in the options. This was a problem for several reasons. First, by adding changes to the end of the file, it made documents inordinately larger than necessary whilst not saving a great deal of time saving them. Secondly, it made the document format more fragile than necessary. Thirdly, it meant deleted text was still present in the file! This was fuel for a number of embarrassing episodes in the last decade. And lastly, the extra complexity to the format meant it took anti-virus vendors longer than they liked to be able to clean documents of macro virii..

In short, Fast Save was one of Microsoft's silent fiascos. Fortunately, more recent versions seem to default it to Off, but the option is still offered.

Wade.

"All around me are nothing but fakes
Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #39,367
by Ashton
5/21/02 4:33:21 AM
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New That suppurating POS still lives? Chris <<< \ufffdbersoft Alert
I recall that in Word6, and the immediate tip to NEVER leave it on.. and you think it defaults to on, in some cases? Damn.. I rarely have to use it, and never 97 - so I also forgot about it.

Have to add to reminders list then, for others. I've forgotten what mischief it caused initially before I asked around, but the deleted-text part is bad enough (along with the included personal spyware S/N). And those bastards never got around to either fixing or removing it ?! I can hear their tiny cast-nylon brain gears squeaking now:

Gosh if we removed it, someone might think we made a mistake - better leave it in and let helpdesk handle it

(or... the Other Help Desk\ufffd work it into a week's worth of acid barbs with Clippy ??)

Somebody: Please Roast the #*%&*$ to about 8000\ufffd K <<<


Ashton
another pin in the Billy Doll - a rusty one from the stable.
     Hath anyone experience with OpenOffice? - (acagle) - (26) - May 9, 2002, 04:12:04 PM EDT
         Talked about a couple times - (tseliot) - May 9, 2002, 04:45:12 PM EDT
         Re: Hath anyone experience with OpenOffice? - (bepatient) - May 9, 2002, 08:28:54 PM EDT
         Can't wait for it to be ported to OS X... -NT - (tjsinclair) - May 10, 2002, 10:19:32 AM EDT
         Aye - (Yendor) - (8) - May 10, 2002, 11:44:13 AM EDT
             OpenOffice 1.0 Killa Feecha (On Linux, anyhow) - (pwhysall) - (7) - May 10, 2002, 12:36:54 PM EDT
                 Re: OpenOffice 1.0 Killa Feecha (On Linux, anyhow) - (acagle) - (2) - May 10, 2002, 12:57:12 PM EDT
                     If you do that - - (Ashton) - May 10, 2002, 06:34:08 PM EDT
                     Quit feeding me nostalgia - (wharris2) - July 3, 2002, 03:11:37 PM EDT
                 Not happenin' on Windows - (kmself) - (2) - May 11, 2002, 12:05:10 AM EDT
                     I'll have to check out TightVNC - (tonytib) - (1) - May 12, 2002, 08:37:10 PM EDT
                         Inflection points - (kmself) - May 12, 2002, 09:18:56 PM EDT
                 Re: OpenOffice 1.0 Killa Feecha (On Linux, anyhow) - (folkert) - May 12, 2002, 09:10:08 PM EDT
         What about file sizes? - (acagle) - (5) - May 13, 2002, 11:59:55 AM EDT
             That sounds about right - (kmself) - May 13, 2002, 07:03:40 PM EDT
             Take a look here... - (folkert) - May 13, 2002, 07:52:32 PM EDT
             'Nother bizarre happenstance. - (acagle) - (2) - May 20, 2002, 12:36:11 PM EDT
                 Fast Save? - (static) - (1) - May 21, 2002, 03:09:27 AM EDT
                     That suppurating POS still lives? Chris <<< \ufffdbersoft Alert - (Ashton) - May 21, 2002, 04:33:21 AM EDT
         Updates. - (acagle) - May 15, 2002, 03:08:35 PM EDT
         And why the F*$#. . . . . - (acagle) - (3) - May 17, 2002, 01:38:06 PM EDT
             Naive suggestion (?) - (Ashton) - (2) - May 17, 2002, 04:57:37 PM EDT
                 I thought of that. - (acagle) - (1) - May 17, 2002, 05:53:07 PM EDT
                     Depends. - (inthane-chan) - May 29, 2002, 07:55:49 PM EDT
         Killa Feecha #2 - (tseliot) - (2) - May 30, 2002, 11:44:17 AM EDT
             That's doable in Word - (drewk) - (1) - May 30, 2002, 12:34:29 PM EDT
                 Ah, thanks for the tip! -NT - (tseliot) - May 31, 2002, 01:04:34 PM EDT

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