Posted by lil' jimi on March 29, 2003, at 13:23:18
In reply to Re: ISO of an expert on MS word (office 2000) version » lostsailor, posted by IsoM on March 29, 2003, at 13:03:49
> Sorry, Tony, but I haven't been around much - too busy. What you wrote was a puzzle for me too so I asked my programming son who said it was a "little" weird, definitely. Here's his suggestion, if it doesn't work, chalk it up to aliens (aka Bill Gates). Windows XP is screwy at times with no accountable reasons for what it does. It still has lots of bugs. I'd phone their help service & tell them what you think & ask for it fixed.
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> Here's the suggestions:
> 1. I don't know if you can do this but perhaps when you saved it once (or any other document), you may have saved it as a "template" by accident, or by default (Word's fault). All new documents will be saved off that template. You could go in & check to see if that's the case.
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> 2. If your computer crashed or shut down when you'd been previously working on ANY document, Word has the ability to recover that lost document if it wasn't saved (as I'm sure you know). Then when it tried to autorecover, it could've gotten locked in the mode where it automatically edits any other document you save & then open again. This is getting a little far fetched but we can't figure anything else out.
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> I'd suggest re-doing your personal settings on Word so it doesn't use the default settings, in case it's reverted. Maybe if everything gets reset (again), it won't occur? Sorry, but grasping at straws.
tony, isoM, pax,but excellent straw-grasping, IMHO, especially with pax' good suggestion to check the MS Xp site, which does offer a lot.
i guess MS has to have Office 2000 compatible with XP... i went to Office XP when i went to Win XP ... which is no help to you...
rebel that i am, i run AppleWorks in XP just to spite the MS gremlins ... okay i'm alittle paranoid ... also no help to our lostsailor, but maybe some entertainment value ... (beside my p3 XP dell, i also have OS X on my iMac ...)
let us hear how it gets resolved.
~ ... jim
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