To "maggie"

Doug Harris cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET
Sun Jul 20 01:00:40 UTC 2008


I am all too aware of the problem requiring this fix, but I'd never
heard this term. So. . . when you cited it, I went in search of more
info. Here, for anyone who cares, is a detailed run-down on the fix
AND a citation on the fix name's origin:
http://www.creativepro.com/article/microsoft-word-creative-pros

It appears the same source can be a wonderful, um, source of lots more
helpful Word-related fixes, too. I know _I_ will be doing some reading
on that site.
dh


Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
Subject:      To "maggie"
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Do we-all know this?

>Maggie is an eponymous term for a procedure devised to clean up a corrupted
>file in Word.
>
>One *copies* the whole file, except for the last paragraph  mark into a new
>RTF.
>
>Alternatively, one can apply the procedure to an individual paragraph, and
>then paste it back into the original file.
>
>
>I do not wish to sound omniscient, but learned it from the Word-PC list.

Joel

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