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Oct 14, 2003 11:11 AM
in response to:
car1son
Re: Need help with word 2001
This puzzles me. My Mac is apparently malfunctioning. I loaded the file you gave me and it, suddenly and apparently, was damaged, and I don't know why and what did that. I am running OS 9.1 but guess this is not important. I can't see why MS had to let this bug without even an update (I ran the patch you talk about on my program a few weeks ago: no chance. So I think that the file in my CD, which is a US version as, I suppose, yours is, is good, but it gets damaged when it is loaded in my HD and that is driving me crazy. I do not think of extension conflicts: the situation doesn't change when I run the system with extensions off. Or it might be that the scanner, the Zip or the printer are causing me troubles. Or I have a virus in my HD that causes me no problem except this. Seven years ago, a SCSI termination caused me more serious troubles: Finder damaged and I couldn't see what was the cause till I had paid some one hundred and forty thousands lire (about US$70) and simply disconnected the SCSI chain. A SCSI termination was the cause of all. But there's no SCSI chain here, just USB...
Nevertheless, I still wonder how a file can be damaged when it is just loaded into an HD. I do suppose the file you gave me was not damaged at all, then why was it damaged on the fly? A virus? I don't have a virus-detecting application, but think that a real virus would cause more troubles than this, not just a simple hyphenation problem, you agree? Is there a virus that acts on MS Office Italian Hyphenation files only and leaves all else untouched? I think I'll have my Mac undergoing a good check and, last, I'll nip out to my Apple dealer, to see what's going wrong.
Though I'm Italian, only two files out of ten in my Mac are in Italian. Nonetheless, those two are as important as remaining eight. I've used MS Word for twelve years, since 1991, and, though I don't like it as the best of all, it is the word-processor I know best. I don't want to change, even though I've never posted Mr. Bill Gates' eye-glassed smile over my bed. No politics, just kidding!
Late note: I just loaded another program, and still I'm experiencing system-freezing and other problems: guess I'll nip out to my Apple dealer or have my system erased and reloaded. No, I want to have my whole HD reformatted, though it'll take no less than four hours.
Thanks for your help.
