Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:18:39 -0700
From: Dave Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Word97 problem
On 28 Jul 99, at 9:13, Jung H. Tsai wrote:
> I am using Word97. Today I tried to save (using File-Save As) the
following
> small document to floppy drive A. When I reopen the document later I was
> surprised to find that Word generated a lot of extras to my original
> document. At the beginning it added "bjbjt+t+", then following the
paragraph
> I typed, Word generated all those words starting with "Normal..."
>
> I'd greatly appreciate it if you can help me to correct the situation.
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Word's .DOC file format is an instance of OLE2/COM/ActiveX "Structured
Storage"; internally, it implements something a bit like a small file
system,
containing all sorts of stuff besides your document text -- formatting info,
footnotes, annotations, document summary, embedded fonts, pictures, links to
other documents. The list goes on and on and on.
Very often, when you edit a line of text, it grows a little and will no
longer fit where it was. Word will find somewhere else for it, and link it
into the structure so the document still displays correctly -- but the
original version is still there, and the .DOC file just grows.
From the "Save As" dialog, you could choose to save your document in some
other format without this excess. Most formats, like .TXT, will just save
the text content and *none* of the formatting, etc; that may be what you
want.
I believe you can keep most of the formatting and so on, while at least
losing old copies of text, by saving in .RTF format.
David G
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Hi, David:
Thanks so much for your reply.
After reading you answer to my question, I found that in the "File of Type"
section of the "Save As" dialog I had inadvertently used "Recover Text from
Any File (*.*)". After I changed it to Word Document file type, the problem
is fixed.
Thanks again.
Jung
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