There's also the time-honored solution (which I believe is actually called a Maggie after the person who put forth the idea) of copying everything except the final paragraph mark and putting it into a new Word document.
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Dana - Feb 18, 2012 1:07:27 pm PST #19506 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
javachik - Feb 18, 2012 1:38:37 pm PST #19507 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
Dana, there was formatting in this doc that wouldn't have carried over to another document.
Ginger - Feb 18, 2012 1:50:14 pm PST #19508 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I always leave the formatting marks on, because without them, there's no way to know what is making formatting go wrong. One thing to remember is that in Word, the paragraph mark contains the formatting instructions for the preceding paragraph.
Consuela - Feb 18, 2012 2:04:25 pm PST #19509 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Ginger is right w/rt Word formatting. Although in the 20+ years I've been using Word, it's gotten a lot more complicated & tricky to use. I still miss Word 4.
Consuela, going to Spain issues aside, how do you like the Mytouch?
I like it well enough. I can't seem to make video streaming work on it, but it's fine for phone, texting, and websurfing. And there are a variety of apps I've grown really attached to, like the calendar & games, Yelp & OpenTable. I don't miss the actual keyboard as much as I thought I would, but I don't do much writing on it other than a couple texts a day.
Strix - Feb 18, 2012 2:06:48 pm PST #19510 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I HATED my keyboard on my previous phone. HATED. And I have normal sized fingers and thumbs.
I'll check out the touch. I really want a phone that has the abilty to have a Dropbox app on it, so I can send docs to clients if I'm sans laptop.
Vortex - Feb 18, 2012 2:08:38 pm PST #19511 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Although in the 20+ years I've been using Word, it's gotten a lot more complicated & tricky to use. I still miss Word 4.
I miss Reveal Codes. Alt+F3 anyone?
Ginger - Feb 18, 2012 2:11:13 pm PST #19512 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It was so much easier when you could see the code. Sigh.
Consuela - Feb 18, 2012 2:16:40 pm PST #19513 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I miss Reveal Codes. Alt+F3 anyone?
Wasn't that WordStar?
And yeah, life was easier when you could see the code.
I like Open Office, but it's hell when you're trying to reformat fic, because the paragraph markers don't work the way they do in Word, and there's a whole other complicated process you have to use. Damned annoying.
Vortex - Feb 18, 2012 2:23:10 pm PST #19514 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Wasn't that WordStar?
WordPerfect.
Gudanov - Feb 19, 2012 3:09:01 am PST #19515 of 25501
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The Word format, at least the .doc format .docx wasn't around when I worked on translating document formats, doesn't really lend itself to WordPerfect style reveal codes. It's hella complex and you can have formatting out of order since it can append edits anywhere in the document to the end of the file. That made it able to save your changes to a big document really fast, but increased the chance for bugs. If you did a 'save as' as opposed to a 'save', it would reorder the file so it was linear.