[Macpartners] Antisocial Behavior of Word 2003

[Kerem B Limon]

Some questions...

What version of Office are you running on your Mac? What format is the original
file and the saved format? (File Properties from within Word)

Are you certain the attachement isn't being corrupted in transfer? Can someone
else with Word 2003 under Windows open it or encounter the same problem?

-Kerem


Quoting James L Kirtley Jr <j.kirtley at ieee.org>:

> I wonder if this is common. A student sent me by email attachment a thesis
> (187 pages, about 1 Mbyte). This had been created on a Windows machine
> running Word 2003 edition. I edited the file using my ibook running under
> Panther with the Microsoft office for OS-10. When I sent the file back to
> the student he could not open it. Word would start, displaying the first
> page, but then would crash when it reached the end of the file. This
> happened even if I turned it into an .rtf file.
> 
> This seems like very bad behavior but then what to expect of microsoft? Any
> words of wisdom/workaround?
> 
> Jim Kirtley
> EECS
> 
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Kerem B. Limon
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