From: Ellen K. 

In the DOS days I used WordPerfect.   Gave it up kicking and screaming.
The funniest thing is how similar HTML is to the WP "revealed codes".

But now I'm used to Word, although there are still a few things that make
me crazy, like the difficulty (for me anyway) of formatting individual
pages of a document differently.   I also don't really
understand how to use a template, i.e. be able to open a template and drop
text into it and then save it as a document.  And will never understand why
adding a header or footer has to be done through the "View" menu.
  Fortunately I don't need to be a power user.

On Wed, 4 May 2005 19:35:51 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote in message
:

>Word has had the ability to open and I think save RTF format since the
>1980's and Word For Dos.  Microsoft promoted it back then as a basis for
>document interchange between different programs.  The last few years it has
>really taken off because of various Web/Email uses of RTF format.
>
>Gary
>(Its hard to believe how long I've been using MS Word.  I still have
>functioning copies of both MS Word 5 for Dos and MS Word 6 for Dos on my
>computers.  Never really used 6 as I moved to windows finally.  I still fire
>up Word 5 from time to time to because I had/have a specialized
>medical/legal dictionary for Word 5.  So if I encounter a new legal/medical
>term not in Word 2000 spell checker and my heavily customized custom.dic
>file, I paste the word into Word 5, spell check it with the medical/legal
>dictionary and then put the verified correct spelling as an addition to my
>Word 2000 custom.dic file.)
>
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:8nli711bh9silqplhjng86nrlg7pfor8kj{at}4ax.com...
>> We don't do any fancy Word formatting.
>>
>> Still, I wonder why this "feature" is in Word in the first place.
>>
>>  /m
>>
>> On Tue, 3 May 2005 17:06:38 -0400, "Gary Britt"

>> wrote:
>>
>> >I think that confirms what Ellen wrote.  If you open the document and do
>> >control-a, control-c and then open a new blank document and
paste into it
>> >and then do a file save, it should give you the same savings as via the
>rtf
>> >route, but formatting might be better preserved with copy and
paste.  RTF
>> >doesn't support everything that Word does formatting wise.
>> >
>> >Gary
>> >
>> >"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>> >news:3mpf71p6uk8g6oa54a5lf4idsn6aifa888{at}4ax.com...
>> >>
>> >> Save to .rtf seems to help.
>> >>
>> >>  /m
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, 03 May 2005 13:55:56 -0700, Ellen K.
>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >I think the "deleted" stuff is never
actually deleted, it's only
>tagged
>> >> >as such.
>> >> >
>> >> >Try copy and paste from the old one to a fresh one
and modify that,
>> >> >instead of continuing to use the same one all the time.
>> >> >
>> >> >On Mon, 02 May 2005 20:23:12 -0400, Mike '/m'
 wrote
>in
>> >> >message :
>> >> >
>> >> >>Two of the Software Engineers who send me a
status report each week
>have
>> >> >>a problem with growing Word files.   They seem to
grow by about
>20-30k
>> >> >>each week, even though the status report remains
about the same
>amount
>> >> >>of words.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>The sequence used to write the status report is
to take last week's
>> >> >>report, modify the text with what is new and save
as a new filename.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>I already checked and fast saves are disabled.  I
am not sure where
>else
>> >> >>to look.  One Engineer has Office XP, the other
Office 2003.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Any suggestions on how to control this problem?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> /m
>> >>
>> >
>>
>

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