Microsoft Word 2003
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Microsoft Word 2003
I just purchased WildEdit and haven't changed any of the default settings. I can get some changes to Word 2003 documents (Windows XP), to work (eg. change COMP to STAT), but when the change includes a change in length of the string (eg. change COMP to COM or to COMPS or even to empty), the resulting documents cannot be opened by Word afterwards. I have tried numerous encodings without any success and am not sure what I am doing wrong...?
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ben_josephs
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TextPad and WildEdit are text editors, designed for editing documents that contain pure text only.
MS Word documents are not text documents; they contain much non-textual information, such as formatting information. These documents are normally stored in files in which the non-textual information is stored in binary form. They are not suitable for editing with a text editor.
You might consider saving the document in XML format, in which all data is represented in textual form, and editing that instead. If you do this you should tell WildEdit that the character encoding of the file is UTF-8.
MS Word documents are not text documents; they contain much non-textual information, such as formatting information. These documents are normally stored in files in which the non-textual information is stored in binary form. They are not suitable for editing with a text editor.
You might consider saving the document in XML format, in which all data is represented in textual form, and editing that instead. If you do this you should tell WildEdit that the character encoding of the file is UTF-8.