[WinMac] cross-platform and MS Word
Lee(ldh[at]loop.com)
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 17:00:09 -0500
Hi,
Reaching at straws here, but in the name of brainstorming ........
If I recall, Word 5.1 has a known problem with "out of memory" messages.
You might find something about this on macfixit, or one of the other Mac
probelms and error sites.
Also, if I recall, Word does a thing called "fast save" which, if i
understand correctly, simply keeps adding revision layers to the original
text file, but doesn't actually create a whole, fresh, new text document
when you save.
Again, just brainstorming, but perhaps being on a floppy exacerbates those
two problems. Did you try saving the files to Hard Drive and opening?
Also, were the floppies PC formated in the home PC or on the Macs?
Sometimes head alignments are out of whack.
Perhaps turning off "fast save," patching the "out of memory problem"
(wish I could point you to a specific site,) and double-checking the
floppies. (They're not good for infinite writing and rewriting you know)
might help.
Again, this is all in the name of brainstorming and trying to he helpful.
Even as I finish this I feel like I haven't really helped any. Hope you
find otherwise.
Lee
>
>However, this week four of my students -- one in one section and
>three in another section of the course, each student working at a
>different computer have experienced the same problem -- after saving
>their word document to a pc disk - the document refused to open --
>when we attempt to open the document in Microsoft Word 5.1, we either
>get an error message that says "not enough memory"... or Word 5.1
>just grinds way until we have to force quit. If we try to open the
>document in Word98, the error message "this is not a word document"
>appears...
>
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