Error reports in word all the time, and i lose my work, why?

[thcerd]

I write documents in Word and an error message comes up saying it has
encountered an error and must close. This happens to me several times in one
document. Can someone please explain to me how to fix this or how I can trade
my office 2007 in for something that does work?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Sorry, you’ve landed in a MacWord group. Try asking your question on the
general Word newsgroups. Start here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx

 

[TexasBob]

I write documents in Word and an error message comes up saying it has
encountered an error and must close. This happens to me several times in one
document. Can someone please explain to me how to fix this or how I can trade
my office 2007 in for something that does work?

This is exactly the reason I started using TeX, more than Word. I
never loose documents by using TeX. For Windows, which you are using,
I suppose, because you mentioned Office 2007, visit here

http://www.tug.org/

and look for distributions for Windows. MikTeX seems good for Windows.

BTW, this is a Macintosh group.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

I guess it wouldn't hurt us to remember that if people could do the job in
TeX (free!!) they probably would not have spent $400.00 on Word

On the other hand, if you want to do the jobs Word is designed for, sorry:
TeX just doesn't have the functionality.

That user's problem is almost undoubtedly corrupted internal nested lists,
caused by mis-handling bullets and/or numbering.

If so, if he copies his text to a new blank document, the crashes will stop.
If he fixes his numbered lists, the crashes will stop. Not a big deal.

Cheers

This is exactly the reason I started using TeX, more than Word. I
never loose documents by using TeX. For Windows, which you are using,
I suppose, because you mentioned Office 2007, visit here

http://www.tug.org/

and look for distributions for Windows. MikTeX seems good for Windows.

BTW, this is a Macintosh group.

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