Bill Sounds very much like a problem I had with an earlier version of MS Word. It turned out after investigation that it was a security problem in the earlier versions of Word but was fixed in versions after Word 98.
Has the file some how gone through a Word 98 or earlier program? If so go and have a look at the following web page which explains it all. <http://www.macintouch.com/o98security.html> Dave Watkins At 6:20 PM +0800 6/6/03, Bill Parker wrote: > Here's a challenging question - I think. > > > I am using MS Word 2001 for the Macintosh. I receive all manner of > Word docs from all over Australia and NZ, normally without problem. > > > Recently I have been writing a couple of largish business > plans/agreements with two colleagues. In one case - the agreement, I > was setting up a TOC and tidying it up. Saved it and noticed that it > was 1500K - way too big for a 28 pp document. Opened it up in > BBEditLite and found an absolute mass of garbage, two repetitions > of the text complete with all the track changes that had been made > over some months. > > No matter what I did (except to save as a Text file and then do all > the style re-setting over), no re-saves would reduce the size nor > get rid of the garbage. > > Sent it to one colleague who uses a late version of Word on a PC. > Got it back, still contains some remnants of garbage but now down to > 132K. > > Is there something the are missing? Failing to do? Is one of my > colleagues' machine doing a corruption? Is this symptomatic of > conflicts between older versions of Word and crossing PC-MAC > platforms? > > Bill > -- > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.html> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.html> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
