Yesterday I spent all day in a small office working on a document. The document is due out on Wednesday, but we haven't a shit show of meeting the deadline, as everyone is seeking the perfect document. Some people cannot let go, especially when they know they have the chance to keep going. And going.
The document itself is corrupting more quickly due to excessive saving, too many people working in it, and track changes being used. And that doesn't Ccern anyone except me.
This afternoon I am going to a meeting, and after that I will have another fairly large document to write.
Maternity leave looks like a doddle compared to this - just one kid, who needs me all the time, but has such simple wants. But all the time.
Posted by Toni at March 23, 2004 08:45 AMEeeee! You've got backups, right?
Something that sometimes fixes corrupted files is to save as RTF and then resave as Word. Sometimes that sorts it out, specially if there're tables involved. (Sorry, if this is gratuitous/irrelevant; this post has filled me with vicarious anxiety. :)
Posted by: iona at March 23, 2004 09:10 AMI have had to do that twice already on this document this week - I only learnt to do it this week, but it is such a good technique.
Seems to be going okay today so far ;)fingers crossed.
Posted by: toni at March 23, 2004 02:11 PMah. joy of joys. we are moving away from Word documents entirely. instead we use a reasonably cool tool called AuthorIT.
Posted by: .carla at March 24, 2004 10:13 AM