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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Recovering Word 3.0 files
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Date: Tue, 26-May-87 01:44:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 26 01:44:09 1987
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Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Keywords: Microsoft Word 3.0 crashes temp files

>>The Table of Contents suddenly stopped working a week ago.  That is,
>>it works fine on short files, bombs, consistently on long files.  It
>>used to be an essential feature.  Now it is useless.  It seemed to

I suggest you try deleting your "word preferences" file and rebuilding it
from scratch.  There are a few bugs involved in how Word handles this file,
and it clears up a large number of problems that carry over multiple
executions of the binary or rebooting.

>Special Memorial Day bomb-o'-the-day: open a file and split the screen 
>(either a regular split screen or a footnote window will do); put the
>insertion point in the upper pane and click in the lower pane within
>an eighth of an inch or so of the bottom of the window.  Cherry bomb =02
>every time.  Footnoters beware.

I tried it on my machine.  It doesn't fail.  Again, try zapping "word
Preferences"  and see if that helps.  If not, try it on a virgin file.  If
it still fails, there is something unique about your system (inits?  da's?
strange hacks?) that is interacting badly with what you're doing, because I
don't have that problem...

Which just goes to show -- before you go blaming a program, try to find out
if it is really the program that does it.  Try it on the distribution
floppies, for instance -- with all the neat toys folks put in the System
file/folder, there are lots of ways to screw up a system that you might not
even be aware of.  Just because Word has bugs doesn't mean that ll of the
bugs in a Mac are in Word.  Before you start passing blame, do your homework.

chuq (official bug catcher type person)
Chuq Von Rospach	chuq@sun.COM		[I don't read flames]

There is no statute of limitations on stupidity