To "maggie"

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Sun Jul 20 02:12:58 UTC 2008


I've seen this on a Word forum, named for a Word guru. BB

On Jul 19, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

>
>
> 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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