Re: Another mailing list idea

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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