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From: blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MS-WORD:  I don't want "Fast Save"
Message-ID: <626@6sceng.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 91 21:35:25 GMT
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Organization: Six Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <1991Apr30.152944.8677@milton.u.washington.edu> tvex@milton.u.washington.edu (t@vex) writes:
|However: I've noticed that the "fast save" format is invoked in the file-type
|when your document has tables embedded in it--or at least when you try to
|open a document with tables with Nisus 3.04. I use Nisus a lot and discovered
|this to my dismay when I tried to open a client's document that contained
|budget tables and was totally unable to do so until I opened it with Word 4.0,
|changed the table back to tabs, and then saved it again. The error dialogue
|I got from Nisus told me something to the effect that Nisus was unable to open
|Word documents in fast-save format.

I suspect the real problem is that Nisus doesn't grok Word tables, and
displays a poor error message.  Most of the documents I work with contain
tables, I've got fast save turned off, and Word always does a complete
(slow :-)) save.
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Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP