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Il 26/07/2010 13.40, Lisa Wilke-Thissen ha scritto:
"Movie Maniac®" wrote,
I've been given a doc file and I have to do some editing on it. There
is some text that is surrounded by a red dashed rectangle that rotates
clockwise. It is the first
time that I see this and I really do not know whats up.
The document was created in Word 2003?
I really do not know. It is a technical document, part of an executive
project. It has been compiled from a model.
Maybe, you see the "red marching
ants". In Word 2007/2010 this text effect has been eliminated - it is no
longer accessible from the UI.
I do not know what "red marching ants" is, unfortunately. I am currently
using office 2010 beta. I tried to save it to docx format, but the problem
persists.
Then I opened the docx with 7zip and took a look at the word\document.xml
file. I found this line of code:
w:effect w:val="antsRed"/
so it might be that the "red marching ants" effect is applied 
. Is this
true?
I could try to attach the file if it was possible. I could send it to
anybody who would be so kind to take a look at it.
Thanks to all!