Charles on… anything that comes along

I updated MS Office because it wanted to be updated. And 57MB later, there it is, in fine fettle.

And now, let’s open an RTF document.

Hmm. Empty. That’s not good.

Let’s open it in TextEdit. Hmm. Full of text.

Word says: empty. TextEdit and Tex-Edit Plus say: full of text. Open document with Word? Empty. (Update: not reproducible in all cases. Just saved an RTF from Notes and it opened like a charm. What the..)

Yeah, I think I might have to file a bug there on version 11.2 (060202). Anyone know where you file bugs on Word? Maybe Office Rocker!. (Who I note here is very proud of the word counter in Word. Um, yes, except it sucks up so much CPU - about 10% when nothing is happening - that I have to turn it off, and remap the keystrokes to do wordcount with a key combo. Plus, as I’ve said in a note to the post, a word count on the status bar is actually not useful, even if it is longstanding; it’s a classic example of Programmer’s Triumph, which I might write about some time soon.)

OK, make that two bugs then.

Update: make that three bugs. You can no longer replace paragraph marks using the “^p” mark in the Find/Replace box on documents saved from RTF in TextEdit to Word format. I’m getting close to binning this release and reinstalling the whole thing. (Later… Or am I searching for the wrong thing? Perhaps TextEdit changes all the line endings to ASCII 10 - ^l, or ^r - and Word is looking for ASCII 13 - ^c. Could happen…)

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