[X-Apps] appleworks/word screw-up

[Judy Antipin]

When you open Appleworks and go to the top 'file' menu, and then to 
'open recent,' do any documents show up? I recoveed an AppleWorks file 
that way once.

Judy Antipin

John Lowther wrote:

> so i am screwed?
>
> i know a good deal of unique text from the document
> but searching for that text doesnt shake anything out
> in fact
> it will sit and spin for as long as i leave it there
> (last night it was still searching 2 hours later so i stopped it)
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 12:18  PM, hart at nasw.org wrote:
>
>> No help for your particular situation, but I've been stung by the 
>> problem AppleWorks/MacLink have with Word translations enough times 
>> to abandon any attempts to work in AppleWorks on Word-format 
>> documents. What I mean is opening a Word-format document in AW, 
>> editing, then saving, which doesn't change the format, but translates 
>> back automatically. On the other hand, I have had no problems in 
>> translating to AppleWorks, saving as an AppleWorks document, then 
>> editing, then saving, then using Save As to translate back to Word 
>> format.
>>
>> I'm using Word itself for a current project, and it's crashed enough 
>> times that I keep daily (untouched) copies of all the files I'm 
>> working on.
>>
>> If you know some unique text in the document, you could use Find by 
>> Content to see if the file got saved to some odd place by accident. 
>> AW does make backup copies in a special folder.
>>
>> Stephen Hart
>> http://eugraph.com
>>
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