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> mjohnsto@lakers.shearson.com writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <MJOHNSTO.91Jun24112451@lakers.shearson.com>
> Posted: 24 Jun 91 15:24:51 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Lehman Brothers
> Person: Mike Johnston
> 
> 
> Last nite I had a particularly exasperating session with Word for Windows and
> Grammatik IV (the new windows version). I was working on a review and was
> using
> outline mode. I called up G4 and proceeded to check my document. After I
> saved
> it and returned to W4W my formatting within the document was all screwed up.
> I started manually correcting it. When it came time to autosave, W4W just
> gave me an unrecoverable application error and gave up. The file must have
> just been to screwed up and Word couldn't handle it. I noted that Word
> behaved strangely after I reloaded the checked document.
> 


     It is a little hard to tell from your posting, but I suspect that you
loaded your document into Grammatik from disk without first closing the
document in Word.  You thus have two applications trying to modify the same
disk file (upon saving), and once a few changes have been made from Grammatik
the two documents (the still open one in WfW and the modified version in
Grammatik) are not identical.  Add in the fact that only part of each "open"
document is in RAM at one time and you may have a recipe for disaster.  Imagine
that the formatting information in WfW says that characters 598 to 645 in the
file are to be bold.  Suppose that the formatting information in WfW is in RAM
while characters 400 to 800 are currently on the disk.  Fire up Grammatik and
modify the disk file by deleting characters 450 to 460 which are a superfluous
word.  Tell Word to save the file.  It doesn't know that you have deleted some
characters from the disk file, and when it combines RAM information and disk
information in a new file it continues to apply the formatting to characters
598 to 645.  This is now adding the bold format to some incorrect characters.
     I have seen a similar phenomenon when wordprocessing with a floppy disk.
Without closing the file I moved the floppy to another computer to do a trial
printout.  The printout wasn't quite correct, so I edited the file a bit and
resaved it.  I took the modified file to the original computer and resumed
work, then saved.  I got just the phenomen described, where blocks of
underlining, bolding etc got shifed back and forth depending on how I had
deleted or inserted material.
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Bruce Dunn    Vancouver, Canada   Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca