Tuesday already

[ksmith]

Rule the First: that the documents that really, really need to be completed by Friday are the ones that will become hopelessly corrupted, crash Word each time you try to open them, and so thoroughly fuck up the works that even if a co-worker sends you a newer version, that will crash Word as well. Something about the formatting, apparently. The entire Office Suite was uninstalled/reinstalled, to no avail. Fingers crossed that Desktop Support will make it all better on the morrow.

Rule the Second: that if one bandages a puppy's allergy-chewed paw for two weeks running, said puppy will make do by chewing up another paw.

There is no Rule the Third. We will save that for another time, when we've nothing better to do.

Comments

[affinity8.livejournal.com]

You know, the thought of a file becoming so thoroughly corrupted that it crashes Word every time you open it is pretty scary. I'm thinking of my novel file. I back it up each day but eeek!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

It happened to a coworker last week. Apparently the formatting of some documents from an overseas plant doesn't get along with our version of Word. It may not be true corruption, just incompatibility.

Of course, there's a time element involved...

[galeni.livejournal.com]

If they save the offending document(s) as .rtf (rich text format), you shouldn't have any problem despite the varying versions of Word. Best of luck!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I tried converting one to rtf, and the formatting got messed up.

System is working today. Two MS programs working in conflict caused the crash. One was removed from my PC, and all is apparently ok.