Beware, Word is Hungry
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Word 2007, that is. Finished typing my master's thesis with twenty or so beautiful drawings, the only thing left to add the TOC, list of tables and the list of figures. All my drawings are contained in the Word canvas feature so last night I proceed to add captions to my figures, create the list of figures and save. Close Word. Make coffee, sit on my balcony, have a ciggie, feel blissful. Go back in to send the paper to my mentor for the final review. Open Word to export the docx to PDF. All my drawings gone. Gone. Just empty rectangles instead of canvases. Cold sweat. OK, I have backups all over the place so the drawings are not lost completely, but still it will take me two days to finish the bloody thing again. Did search the internet, same thing happened to a few other poor sods but no solution. Canvas, I hate you. Word 2007, I hate you. Docx, I hate you. MS, I hate you.
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Word 2007, that is. Finished typing my master's thesis with twenty or so beautiful drawings, the only thing left to add the TOC, list of tables and the list of figures. All my drawings are contained in the Word canvas feature so last night I proceed to add captions to my figures, create the list of figures and save. Close Word. Make coffee, sit on my balcony, have a ciggie, feel blissful. Go back in to send the paper to my mentor for the final review. Open Word to export the docx to PDF. All my drawings gone. Gone. Just empty rectangles instead of canvases. Cold sweat. OK, I have backups all over the place so the drawings are not lost completely, but still it will take me two days to finish the bloody thing again. Did search the internet, same thing happened to a few other poor sods but no solution. Canvas, I hate you. Word 2007, I hate you. Docx, I hate you. MS, I hate you.
I hope you get your thesis back :-(
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I hope you get your thesis back :-(
No problem, I have backups, but it will take me a couple of days to recreate it. It's just that this never happened to me before. I type all my papers in Word but I always use the doc format. I didn't even realize I was using docx this time until Word went left.
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Word 2007, that is. Finished typing my master's thesis with twenty or so beautiful drawings, the only thing left to add the TOC, list of tables and the list of figures. All my drawings are contained in the Word canvas feature so last night I proceed to add captions to my figures, create the list of figures and save. Close Word. Make coffee, sit on my balcony, have a ciggie, feel blissful. Go back in to send the paper to my mentor for the final review. Open Word to export the docx to PDF. All my drawings gone. Gone. Just empty rectangles instead of canvases. Cold sweat. OK, I have backups all over the place so the drawings are not lost completely, but still it will take me two days to finish the bloody thing again. Did search the internet, same thing happened to a few other poor sods but no solution. Canvas, I hate you. Word 2007, I hate you. Docx, I hate you. MS, I hate you.
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:thumbsup: Yes, Latex is THE ONLY ONE to use for theses, scientific documents.
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Word 2007, that is. Finished typing my master's thesis with twenty or so beautiful drawings, the only thing left to add the TOC, list of tables and the list of figures. All my drawings are contained in the Word canvas feature so last night I proceed to add captions to my figures, create the list of figures and save. Close Word. Make coffee, sit on my balcony, have a ciggie, feel blissful. Go back in to send the paper to my mentor for the final review. Open Word to export the docx to PDF. All my drawings gone. Gone. Just empty rectangles instead of canvases. Cold sweat. OK, I have backups all over the place so the drawings are not lost completely, but still it will take me two days to finish the bloody thing again. Did search the internet, same thing happened to a few other poor sods but no solution. Canvas, I hate you. Word 2007, I hate you. Docx, I hate you. MS, I hate you.
Read it as 'World is Hungry', and was about to point to ... Snickers. :-)
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Yes, CS. Latex is OK, but next time I'll just regular rope.
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Word 2007, that is. Finished typing my master's thesis with twenty or so beautiful drawings, the only thing left to add the TOC, list of tables and the list of figures. All my drawings are contained in the Word canvas feature so last night I proceed to add captions to my figures, create the list of figures and save. Close Word. Make coffee, sit on my balcony, have a ciggie, feel blissful. Go back in to send the paper to my mentor for the final review. Open Word to export the docx to PDF. All my drawings gone. Gone. Just empty rectangles instead of canvases. Cold sweat. OK, I have backups all over the place so the drawings are not lost completely, but still it will take me two days to finish the bloody thing again. Did search the internet, same thing happened to a few other poor sods but no solution. Canvas, I hate you. Word 2007, I hate you. Docx, I hate you. MS, I hate you.
Had the same thing happen to me when I was at Uni suddenly nice detailed circuit diagrams become red X's...solved it by separating each chapter and importing and printing from there mind you that was with Office XP haven't they figured out how to fix that... :confused: