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Subject:Help - Garbage in .rtf files in WORD 6 From:Cheryl Kidder <chekid -at- POSTMAN -dot- SYMIX -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:46:19 -0400
>Hi folks:
>I need your help. We have created .rtf files in WORD 6 that we compile
>on a
>regular basis to send out as online help files. All has gone well up
>until the
>last 2 months or so.
>Now we have garbage characters right in the top of random files.
>Originally
>when this happened we were able to delete them and resave the file as
>an .rtf.
>If we had trouble with that method, we would save it as a .doc file,
>reopen it
>and resave as an .rtf.
>For the first time in the last couple weeks, we are no longer able to
>permanently get rid of these garbage characters and it is making our
>compile
>crash big time. The difference is we have new equipment and moved over
>to
>Windows 95. We did try loading WORD 7 momentarily but were unable to
>even open
>these affected files in WORD 7 -- got error about "not enough memory."
>Any help or advice or where we might go to get this solved would be so
>greatly
>appreciated. It's a big bad problem here.
>TIA,
>Cheryl D. Kidder
>Senior Information Developer
>Symix, Inc
>chekid -at- symix -dot- com
