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From: fisher@elxsi.UUCP (Chuck Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Recovering Word 3.0 files
Message-ID: <395@elxsi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 11:50:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 11:50:22 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 01:04:48 EDT
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Reply-To: fisher@elxsi.UUCP (Chuck Fisher)
Organization: ELXSI Super Computers, San Jose
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Keywords: Microsoft Word 3.0 crashes

I too had a bad experience with Word 3.0 over the weekend.  I had spent
two hours taking notes at a meeting with the Mac and had about 6 pages
of text.  All the while I was saving frequently (about every 15 minutes)
and never a hint of trouble.  Untile I returned home, that is.  I tried
to open the document and I get the infamous bomb ID 02 (bad address).
After several unsuccessful ruses (turning off cache, switching documents,
copying the bad document, etc.) I decided to try one more trick.

I made a duplicate of the bad document and changed its type to "TEXT"
with an originator of "????".  I figured that should fool Word 3.0, and it
did!  I opened the "text" document and everything was fine, except for
no format information.  It was an easy process to cut and paste to a new
document and apply the styles that I had defined.  It only took about
10 minutes to resurrect the thing.  So far I have not had a repeat of
the problem.  I hope this helps some other people out in net-land.

Chuck