Re: Word internals

So you have run across this before Janet ?

What a PAIN though to have to go through all of that because of something MS 
should
FIX, eh ? :-)

Chuck

jkrueger@andrewscg.com wrote:

> >> I just tried it and watched the Word 2000 document grow and grow despite
> deletes. Eventually deleted everything. Then went to an older PC with Word 97
> and opened the Word 2000 document and it was blank (no deleted stuff showing)
> ???
>
> >> Maybe just a problem with Word 98 ?
>
> In my experience, Word 2000 doesn't keep 'everything', just an awful lot, and
> not very predictably...  The safest thing to do before you exchange a Word
> document with someone else, regardless of which version of Word you are using,
> is to export the document to an RTF (Rich Text Format) document.  Then import
> the RTF document into a new Word document.  After that, adjust the properties 
>so
> your new document correctly reflects the author, subject, etc.
>
> From: Janet Krueger      507 529 8777 ext 110
> Andrews Consulting Group       www.andrewscg.com
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