Let's hear it for Office!

[alexpgp]

With 3 pages left to go, Word 2000 decides to throw a little tantrum, first complaining that my drive is full (when there are only 519 MB left free), and then claiming that too many files/applications are open (Word is the only application running - besides the usual gang of background processes - but then who knows how many files it is trying to open?)

Bottom line: I resort to some fast tap-dancing to save the work since my previous successful save, but without using Word. Fortunately, there's not a lot of fancy formatting/superscripting/subscripting in this section.

Conclusion: Using Word is like boxing... you can't let your guard down for a minute.

Cheers...

Comments

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

How do you save a Word file without using Word? I've had similar problems in the past (run-time errors, auto-recovery postponed, memory supposedly nearly full) but the nice thing about Trados is that if Word loses unsaved work and Trados Workbench has your most recent work in its memory, it'll just redo it for you when you open Word again.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

You don't save the whole file, just enough to know (guess) that you've gotten the part since the last save and then cut and paste it into something else (e.g., a text editor). (It occurs to me, as I write this, that one might try pasting into WordPad to try to preserve some formatting, but I have never tried it.)

I had that Trados phenomenon work for me once, and there was a time it did not work (and I cannot figure out what the difference was).

In any event, it would not have helped me in my latest project, as my original would've taken forever to OCR, so I did things the old fashioned way (including a lot of what amounts to typesetting when it came to entering the equations).

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Cheers...

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

I think if everything freezes up there's a chance that Trados might not catch the last couple of updates.