[Corpora-List] workstation advice for corpus linguistics work

[Rich Cooper]

Alexander,

Word is fragile, and doesn't let you know when its working in background
mode in any obvious way - no cursor indication for many of the background
tasks it kicks off as you work.  You have to use the task manager in
performance tab to see how much resource Word uses.  

But by keeping temporally behind it instead of ahead of it, and by using
John's copy method for removing garbage, I have operated Word files up to
300 megabytes with embedded pictures, drawings and slides from other Office
products and other files.  But still, when I copy a word file and then paste
it onto another drive, I watch the task manager to figure out when ALL of
those plug-ins have been transferred.  

Word is seriously fickle.  

HTH,
-Rich
 
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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-----Original Message-----
From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
John F. Sowa
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 7:29 AM
To: corpora at uib.no
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] workstation advice for corpus linguistics work

On 1/22/2011 5:21 AM, Alexander Yeh wrote:
> I remember passing paper drafts back and forth with a co-author who used
> OpenOffice (and myself using Word). After several iterations, the paper
> draft became unopenable by Word, and we had to revert to an older version.

Those bloated office products accumulate a huge amount of garbage during
the editing process.  Even when the visible text can be converted, the
invisible garbage can create problems.

One solution I've found helpful is to open a new, completely empty
document.  Then do a cut-and-paste of the entire previous document
into the new one.  That process copies over the visible material,
and leaves the invisible garbage behind.  (Check the before and
after file sizes to see the difference.)

You can keep the old version in an archive, just in case.

John

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