Hi Peter,
Generally whenever I want to create a document accessible to both Windows/Mac users (without tying them into having proprietary paid software) I just create the document in whatever software suits ME for the particular task and then just print it as a pdf (which is so easy in OSX). Everyone is used to downloading and reading pdfs which seem to be the de-facto default standard for downloadable documents and manuals. Just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 27/1/10 9:18 AM, Peter Bull at pb...@bbnet.com.au wrote: > > Apple to the rescue....again!! > > Thanks Ray, Rob and Tim for your input. > I forgot to mention that all of the formatting was removed as well - > everything was changed to Times Roman 12 point. I also omitted that > the Word file was saved on a USB thumb drive. > But, last night I thought I would try Pages. It opened the Word file > complete with tables and formatting and I saved it as a .doc Word > document and everything is back the way it was. > > I would not normally use Word for such a big document, having bought a > copy of Adobe InDesign, but this document is a set of notes for TAFE > and other lecturers need access to it and TAFE is PC only using Word > 2007 , which is one of the worst pieces of software ever inflicted on > the human race. > > Thanks again... I can get back to work now. > > > On 26/01/2010, at 9:23 PM, Peter Bull wrote: > >> >> I have just opened a book I have been revising in Word. A message >> came up saying there was some corruption but it managed to open it. >> However, the 135 pages has blown out to 465 because Word has lost >> all the tables so the info in the tables has been put one line under >> another and double spaced. >> >> Is there some way I could go revert to the last saved version? If >> so, it would save me a huge amount of work of course. And no, I >> don't have a backup copy. >> iMac, OS 10.5.8. Word X for Mac. >> >> Peter Bull >> pb...@bbnet.com.au >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
