[Papyrus-L] ".NEW" file and Word 2000 /Win XP

Raisa Deber raisa.deber at utoronto.ca
Wed Aug 10 14:21:33 EDT 2005


On Aug 9, 2005, at 8:29 PM, Peirce, S.C. wrote:

> Dear All
>
> I've been struggling with the problems of Papyrus under Win XP but  
> generally getting by with help from previous fora. However, when I  
> have managed the citing and the text extraction and created my .NEW  
> file I find it tends to crash Word when I try to open it to read,  
> edit and paste in the citation list. Sometimes I can manage by only  
> making a few changes in between each document save, sometimes I  
> can't seem to achieve anything. Any ideas?
Save the Word file in Word 6/95 format; this avoids some of the  
special tags which  Papyrus has trouble with.  You may also want to  
rename the new file to end with a .doc rather than a .new. RTF does  
not work - it still has the tags.   Let me know if that works.
Raisa Deber
>
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