[Papyrus-L] XPXP + Papyrus

[Denis Brown]

Dear Yvonne,

A 7.6MB document is indeed impressive!   When you say "table format" do I 
infer that this is some sort of grant application template that you're 
filling out and it's in the form of a large table?   They've given me a few 
grey hairs, with interesting formatting issues!?   While I cannot help 
directly vis a vis XP, a possibility might be this...

If you have a copy of the document in its original (98/2000) format you may 
be able to open it using the OpenOffice.org word processor and re-save it 
as 97/2000/XP format.   I have had occasion to use OO.o successfully for a 
variety of such "rescue missions" as have a number of my 
colleagues.   OpenOffice.org is available as a free download from 
www.openoffice.org and it has a free/paid-support counterpart in its 
parent, StarOffice.   I don't know how Papyrus fares with OO.o (Dave -- any 
thoughts?) so it might be possible to do your task entirely in OO.o

Geographically I'm in Australia and I presume, without looking at mail 
headers, that you're probably in the USA and most likely at an educational 
institution, too, so I'm sure you'll find many people who have OO.o who 
would be willing to help much more closely at hand.   I do know that Office 
97 and OO.o peacefully co-exist under Windows 95/98/NT4 but I cannot speak 
for interactions with Office2000 or XP under any operating system.   Hence 
I'd be a little wary of loading it onto a mission-critical XP system in 
case Mr Gates gets offended <smile>

Apologies to you, and the list, if I have misinterpreted the nature of your 
problem.
Denis


At 21:08 14/01/2003 +1100, you wrote:
>I have recently upgraded both hardware and software - the software from 
>Windows 98 + Office 2000 to Windows XP + Office XP.
>
>I have a 7.6MB document in table format, and with thousands of references.
>
>The document was successfully managed on the previous system. Since 
>changing to XPXP, the table format is lost in the .NEW document, and the 
>system crashes.
>
>I tried changing (a copy of a smaller version of) the file to a Word 6/95 
>document, and could not open the .NEW file.
>
>I write to request advice and hopefully solutions!
>
>Yvonne


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