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[kaylarudbek]

Microsoft Word OS X keeps on losing my formatting for .doc files and sticking it onto the end of the document as pages and pages of stuff/visible metadata. Does anyone have an idea as to:
1) how I can stop it doing this?
2) how I can recover the proper formatting for my file & print out the damned thing looking the way I want it to look & the way I formatted it?

Comments

[sraun]

I wonder if this is related to a problem that drove me nuts with Word 98? In Word 98 (probably any version of Word on Windows - I know this problem is true through Office XP), the "open file of type" selector in the Open File dialog box is sticky - if you set it to 'Recover Text', it stays as 'Recover Text' until you change it.

I had a customer who complained that any time they opened a file, it lost all the formatting. I had to go watch - File, Open, double-click on file, no formatting. Find file in Windows Explorer, double-click on it - formatting! Huh? I had to poke at that system for 10 minutes or more before I figured out what was going on.

So, could it be something like this?

[kaylarudbek.livejournal.com]

Y'know, it does keep on giving me that stupid "Recover Text From Any File" whenever I open a file. But I tried opening the file in a web browser and it had still lost the formatting...let me go try changing the Open File dialogue and see if that works.

[kaylarudbek.livejournal.com]

Well, tried changing the Open File dialog and still didn't work on either Mac or PC. And yet the file says that the last time I saved it was March 19, not yesterday, so presumably the formatting is still there somehow...