TECH: w'95 and disk prob.

[Cathy Nelson <clnelson@SCESCAPE.NET>]

Okay, I defer to the W'95 experts again.  I sponsor the school paper
(printed quarterly).  My club of fifteen reporters/editors/writers put
together our articles on various computers around the building.  When they
are finished, they send for the disk that holds our newspaper, and simply
add in their article to the current edition.  We have used Microsoft Office
97 for our WP program, and up until now it has worked nicely.  Yesterday,
after saving a final segment of the paper, i closed it.  At the end of the
day, I decided to go ahead a print a hard copy to edit the old fashion way
during a newspaper meeting this A.M.  When I tried to open it, I kept
getting a strange error message, something to the effect of ..."you must
click on open, or your file must have a .doc extension."  Well folks, it did
have the right extension, and no matter how many ways I tried to open it, I
could not.  The students claim they saved it just like they always have.
All other editions open just fine! The only one that won't open is the one I
NEED!

This was extremely frustrating, because tomorrow is publishing day!  All we
had left to do was add in our pictures and boxes, and well, format here and
there.  I never add the pictures until last because some of them I don't
care to save on the file, so it was just plain text. (Also I am not a
picture buff, but I do know they take up a good chunk of memory, and I want
my paper on a disk, not several--and no, I'm still in the fog about zip, and
quite frankly, at this time, could care less.)  I got so hooked on saving it
on the computer, and merely having a disk instead, that I threw away written
out stuff as it was added to the disk, and guess what---no back up copy.  I
guess I learned the lesson the hard way!

If only this were April Fool's Day and this was a terribly funny joke.  My
newspaper club wants to have a burial service tomorrow for the disk, and I
sort of in a sick way wish it would go to you know where.

I remember recently someone requesting to see other school newspapers
published on school web pages.  Mine last edition is there, if you'd like to
see it. The Wolverine  http://www.rpsec.usca.sc.edu/schools/NewEllentonMiddle/


                            Cathy Nelson, Media Specialist
                            New Ellenton Middle School, New Ellenton, SC 29809
                          Phone:  803-652-8200  FAX: 803-652-8203
                              Home E-mail:  clnelson@scescape.net
                            School E-mail:  cnelson@aiken.k12.sc.us
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