[Year 12 IT Apps] Another Software issue Repair function MSWord 2007

[Roland Gesthuizen]

There is quite a cottage industry for repairing files and documents. A
student got himself a free lunch reconstructing a document for a staff
member here once.

I have had some luck opening using OpenOffice to saving these to ODT format,
then saving things back to MS Word DOC. Has to do with the robust format of
this strict document standard that strips out the quirky rubbish that can
accumulate inside word docs. It has something to do with doc errors being
interpreted as reserved features and is part of the reason why the open
document format is used in Canberra for document archiving. I bet there are
other tricks that you can dig up with google.

Regards Roland

2009/3/10 Antoinette Siarabalos <asiara at bigpond.com>

>  HI all,
>
> On another software issue does anyone know how to get to the Repair
> function in MS Word 2007?
>
> I have a file which has tables that have been corrupted. Everytime I open
> the file, a message appears telling me that I can repair the file. I follow
> the instructions provided but can't find the repair function supposedly
> under the MS menu in Word. I spent about an hour trying to figure this out
> to no avail.
>
> If anyone could help it would be most appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antoinette
>
> Thank you,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au]*On Behalf Of *Jock Garnsworthy
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:51 AM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school
>
> Thanks to all who offered feedback on the great VISTA slowdown. The
> consensus was clearly leave it alone !
> However, during the last week our techie has found a potential solution to
> the slow login times and has deployed it. From a 3 to 10 min login ( more
> often the later) we are down to 1 to 2 min login. All seems rosy at this
> stage with fingers crossed as we continue to monitor the solution.
> BTW our workstations are Intel Pentium R , 3 Ghz with 2 Gig RAM.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Jock Garnsworthy
> Williamstown High School
> Williamstown
> 93971899
>
>
> On 7/03/09 9:49 AM, "Roland Gesthuizen" <rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Counterpart at VicRoads laughed when I mentioned VISTA. We also run XP as a
> virtual machine on an OSX platform, it works well here and the milk has not
> gone off.
>
> Quick reality check. Faster computing doesnt really equate to faster
> thinking. Flasher desktops dont really equate to better looking outcomes. We
> are preparing students to be great kids with strategies like play and
> exploration. Lets not turn them into smaller versions adults or industrial
> fodder. A fun lesson does equate to constructive learning and can even be
> done with a stick on the beach sand. (grumpy old man waves stick)
>
> Regards Roland
>
> 2009/3/4 Royce Williams <Royce.Williams at billanook.vic.edu.au>
>
> You have to see the irony.
> Saying use Vista but using an iPhone.
> We buy machines that include the "downgrade" to. XP.
>
> Royce Williams
> Sent from my AppleBerry
>
> On 04/03/2009, at 8:11 PM, "David Fenwick" <
> whereisfenners at gmail.com<mailto:whereisfenners at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> There are many benefits of vista - increased security, faster access to
> programs with search bar, more control via group policy, better
> moviemaker/paint and it looks better -and it runs well on an appropriately
> spec'd machine.
> Ask the kids what they'd like and most would say vista because they have it
> at home with office 2007.
> Schools should be encouraging use of the latest technology and always
> looking to move forward.
>
>
> Sent from David Fenwick's iPhone
>
> On 04/03/2009, at 6:53 PM, 31Graham Marshall <<mailto:graham951 at ho<graham951 at ho>
> !
> %20tmail.com <http://20tmail.com> >graham951 at hotmail.com<mailto:graham951@
> hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Leave the B....y thing alone. It's a Microsoft Stuff Up.
>
>
>
>
>
> Graham Marshall[http://graphics.hotmail.com/emsmile.gif]
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>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school
> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 18:06:51 +1100
>
> Our last batch of 2008 laptops came with VISTA. It operated nowhere else in
> the school and caused lots of problems.
>
> For this year's laptops the techs created their own XP image and many of
> those with VISTA are requesting rollbacks.
>
> Regards
> Robert T-A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jock Garnsworthy
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:06 PM
> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school
>
> Hi all,
> Slightly off topic, but I would like opinions with what schools are doing
> re VISTA.
> It was deployed over the Xmas holidays here and we have had no end of
> problems mainly with very slow speed issues. I am trying to convince powers
> to be to roll back to XP.
>
> Any comments ?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jock Garnsworthy
> Williamstown High School
> Williamstown 3016
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