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argh, fecking Word just aborted "memory could not be read" and took my last 3 hours of edits with it.
grumble rumble grrr. lost. gone. It's in my head but they were nicely down and made sense.
this Win2K system is really overdue for a total re-install. And this time I'm not furkling around with logomanager / nokia PC suite / bluetooth drivers on it...

And I guess I should turn autosave back on ...

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Word is completely lethal these days, it just seems to explode for no reason from time to time. Mind you, not everyone has the problem and I'm pretty sure it's down to changing *any* of the default options. In particular, I know if you turn off all the auto features, it'll ocasionally detonate when you backspace at the start of a line.

I guess it's down to the way they code...write crap and test extensively, fixing up the problems as they surface. So if you go down any of the less tested paths, you get to test the bits they couldn't be bothered to.

Excel, on the other hand, is actually a decent product and 99.99999% of the time does exactly what it's meant to. I hardly ever crash it, and I really *do try*!

Yes, that'll be me,
I turn the auto cirrect (sic), spell, suggestion, smiley conversion etc off straight away.

Mind, this *is* the first time for a year or more that Word has blown up unexpectedly (as opposed to expectedly exploding :) ...

Haven't managed to break Excel either.
But then, I'm hardly trying.

[Amazingly, using Excel currently to do a memory map & planning store layout for a project, as I'm lazy and didn't want to have to use the calculator for 100 or so offsets, I just fired up Excel, let it do the hard work (add two numbers together a few dozen times. well 'ard!). Usefull too for the "what if" like if I add a word to the structures & then it recalculates it all for me. Now, to get the hang of DDE / OLE / whatever-the-feck-MS-call-it-now (was DDE / OLE ten years ago when I last looked at this) so that the range in Excel that I cut n paste into my Word doc is actually dynamically updated when / if I change the cells in Excel.
Nope, think I'll stick with cut n paste. Less to go wrong!
:)

To each their own...personally, I find Excel to be a completely useless product.

But then, maybe that's because I stopped using spreadsheets with Lotus 123 :)

It's almost worse if the explosions are sporadic. At least if it explodes reliably, you remember to save a lot. But Microsoft can't even get that right.

Oh, rely on 'autosave'? Ha. Ha.

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