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From: MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A "goody" of MS-Word...
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Date: 13 Jul 89 01:00:51 GMT
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cuello@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

> And finally you send the document. Suppose you send it using
> electronic mail. If the person in question has Microsoft Word 4.0, no
> problem; your document will look as neat and polished as it did the
> last time you saved it.
>
> But if the person has (arg!) version 3.0x, prepare yourself for a rude
> awakening.
>
> Because our good-old MS Word will have stored in the file _ALL_ the
> text that has been typed in that document, regardless if it was
> deleted, edited, polished,armor-alled...

Word 3 has this feature too. It's called 'fast save'. All Word does
during a fast save is remember fixups and appends the list of fixups
with pointers into the doc to the end of the text. Once the magic
number of changes is overstepped, the next save will be a 'full save'.

You can tell which of the two happened by looking at the lower left
corner of the doc's window. During a save it'll display the %age
processed. If it goes from 0-100 in a more or less continuous fashion,
its a 'full save'. If it jumps from 0 to 45 to 80 to 100, for example,
it will have been a fast save.

Opening any W4 doc in W3 will cause W3 to open the file as text. All
the fixups (being text) will therefore be displayed.

Hope this helps.

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