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Subject:Re: MS Word & BMP's From:Robert Plamondon <robert -at- PLAMONDON -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 15 Oct 1995 14:18:55 PDT
My experience is that Microsoft Word is not up to documents that
are either long or contain non-trivial pictures. To get reliable
results, you must ditch Word.
In the short term, I suspect that 16 MB of RAM is not enough. Steal
someone else's RAM and try 24 or 32 MB.
-- Robert
P.S. Back up your work constantly if you're using Word, and never
overwrite an old backup -- creeping corruption may cause you most
recent 25 version to all have some previously undetected, yet
unrecoverable, error.
--
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