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From: adams@jif.berkeley.edu (Jeffrey P. Adams)
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Subject: Invisible text in WriteNow, ... bombing.
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Date: 30 May 90 21:35:09 GMT
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During a recent WriteNow late-night essay-writing stint, I had 40
pages of document and I wanted to shrink it down a little.  I selected
the whole paper and changed the line height field in the ruler, just
like normal.  To my horror, My entire document "disappeared."

It was apparently still there: I could "select" text that I couldn't
see.  Little rectangles of gray appeared in the window, but there
was no text to be seen.  Even the between-page black strips weren't
there.

After I tried fruitlessly to select this and that, WriteNow suddenly
closed its windows and terminated.  When I tried reopening them, it
gave me the "File Busy" panel.

Has anything like this happened to anyone else?

By the way (I know you're all dying to know), I got the paper back
fine, and was evenually able to make the change line height change.

Jeff Adams
adams@ucscl.ucsc.edu