[LINK] ArsT: 'Microsoft Word, RIP: 1983 - 2009'

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:00 AM 4/08/2009, Paul Bolger wrote:
>I do remember a rather amusing anecdote about a very large commercial
>law firm in Sydney who had a 500 page statement of claim document
>written in Word 'collapse', get its knickers in such a knot the text
>was irretrievable, the night before it was due to be lodged. The
>junior lawyers assigned to the case were forced to stay in the office
>overnight re-typing the document from the last printout.

Nightmare. In our collaborative group, we each had a copy of the full 
master to guard against that very thing. Versioning is important. At 
least you only have to go back one version instead of starting at the 
beginning!!

Jan



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