Word Crash

[AnnB]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) I have a Word merge file, data is in a Filemaker file, and every time I try to save the file Word crashes.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Ann:

Maggie the document.

The Maggie:

1. Create a new blank document
2. Carefully select all of the text in the bad document EXCEPT the last
paragraph mark
3. Copy it.
4. Paste in the new document.
5. Save under a new file name and close all, then re-open.

This technique for de-corrupting is known as "Doing a 'Maggie'", after
Margaret Secara from the TECHWR-L mailing list, who first publicised the
technique.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but this forum is NOT Twitter. If you
give more detail, you will get more helpful responses.

Cheers

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) I have a Word
merge file, data is in a Filemaker file, and every time I try to save the file
Word crashes.

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[AnnB]

Hi Ann:

>
> Maggie the document.
>
> The Maggie:
>
> 1. Create a new blank document
> 2. Carefully select all of the text in the bad document EXCEPT the last
> paragraph mark
> 3. Copy it.
> 4. Paste in the new document.
> 5. Save under a new file name and close all, then re-open.
>
> This technique for de-corrupting is known as "Doing a 'Maggie'", after
> Margaret Secara from the TECHWR-L mailing list, who first publicised the
> technique.
>
> Please don't take this the wrong way, but this forum is NOT Twitter. If you
> give more detail, you will get more helpful responses.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On 24/03/10 8:28 AM, in article (e-mail address removed)2ac0,
> "[email protected]" wrote:
>
>
> --
>
> The email below is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
> matters unless I ask you to; or unless you intend to pay!
>
> John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
> McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
> Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410 | mailto:[email protected]
>
> Thank you, John. I will try this method; however, what did work which was published on this forum sometime in the summer of 2009 as I recall, was to simply save the merged document as a .doc rather than a .docx.
>

 

[John McGhie]

If it works in .doc but not in .docx, and all your updates are in place,
then it's a bug and we'd like a sample to send to Microsoft...

Cheers



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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410 | mailto:[email protected]