Re: Another mailing list idea

Hi Chuck,

Open the Word2000 document in Word97. Word97 reportedly doesn't recognize
that the deleted text has been deleted, so it shows it all.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@iquest.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: Another mailing list idea


> I can add stuff to a document and then delete and watch the size grow...
>
> How do you see this deleted stuff ?
>
> Chuck
>
> "Boling, David E." wrote:
>
> > I can't get the Word2000 problem to reproduce, has anyone else?  When I
> > delete the contents it goes back to a 19k file size.
> >
> > David Boling
> > Information Systems Director
> > Rowan County Information Systems Department
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jpcarr@tredegar.com [mailto:jpcarr@tredegar.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:54 AM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Another mailing list idea
> >
> > >With all the problems we all have with Windows software and the
alternate
> > >applications a lot of people are using, maybe we need a
> > >PC-Software-for-Midrange-Professionals mailing list?
> > >
> > >I just had a dialog box pop up that said "Channel two is connected".  I
> > have
> > >no idea what that means, and worse, no idea where to find out!!
> > >
> > >Phil
> >
> > As the first anecdote on the proposed list, I offer the below.  It was a
> > part of a news letter I get.   Ya, gotta read it.
> >
> > Ya know,  MS should have stuck with their usual tactic of have the
output
> > of their new version of their product unusable by older versions.
> >
> > John
> >
> > 1. MICROSOFT SPREADS THE WORD -- TOO MUCH
> > Many users of Microsoft Word 2000 have noticed an annoying phenomenon
> > -- their documents keep getting bigger every time they're edited. Even
> > deleting the entire content of a document doesn't reduce its size.
> > Microsoft recommends using "Save As" to re-save an oversized document
> > into another file, which then reduces the size back to a respectable
> > number of bytes.
> >
> > One day, not long ago, a hapless Word 2000 user reported to this
> > editor that he had learned the hard way why Word documents stay so
> > large -- they retain all the text you ever typed in that document. He
> > discovered this when a potential employee called to ask why the salary
> > offer he received was less than that offered to another applicant for
> > a similar job. The Word users had done what we all do -- cloned a
> > letter from another similar letter -- never suspecting that Word 2000
> > would betray them.
> >
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