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Black vs. Blue .doc Titles
I thought I had this figured out once, but need a clarification from an
expert. My wife is running Office 2003 under XP/Home on a laptop, and the same setup on her desktop. On her desktop computer (and mine, too, for that matter!) most Word document titles are black. On the laptop some were black and some were blue, but after I ran Windows Update a few days ago, now all the .doc titles are blue. What gives here? Thanks. |
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The blue filenames are compressed archive files.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jim Wood" wrote in message ... I thought I had this figured out once, but need a clarification from an expert. My wife is running Office 2003 under XP/Home on a laptop, and the same setup on her desktop. On her desktop computer (and mine, too, for that matter!) most Word document titles are black. On the laptop some were black and some were blue, but after I ran Windows Update a few days ago, now all the .doc titles are blue. What gives here? Thanks. |
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Thanks, Suzanne;
How did they get that way and what are the implications? Can these be copied to another computer with, say, an earlier version of Word and opened okay? Is the compression/archive utility something that can be toggled on and off? Jim "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The blue filenames are compressed archive files. |
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I've already told you more than I know because I'm running Windows 2000, and
I believe this is a Windows XP feature. But I assume there is a setting in Windows that causes files to be archived (compressed) after a certain interval. You can probably find something about this in Control Panel or perhaps Tools | Folder Options in an Explorer window. If you can't figure it out from these guesses, try asking in a Windows newsgroup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jim Wood" wrote in message ... Thanks, Suzanne; How did they get that way and what are the implications? Can these be copied to another computer with, say, an earlier version of Word and opened okay? Is the compression/archive utility something that can be toggled on and off? Jim "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The blue filenames are compressed archive files. |
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Jim Wood shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.docmanagement:
Thanks, Suzanne; How did they get that way and what are the implications? Can these be copied to another computer with, say, an earlier version of Word and opened okay? Is the compression/archive utility something that can be toggled on and off? It won't hurt, the compression has nothing to do with Word, it is a feature of the NTFS filesystem and is completely transparant for all aplications. Compression/decompression happens "on the fly". If you copy the file to a medium that is uncompressable (like a FAT filesystem) it is instantly decompressed. Your computer is just trying to help you, trying to create a balance between uncompressed files (a bit faster) and compressed files (a bit smaller). As a rule of thumb, files that you don't need very often (once or twice per month or so) could be compressed, and files you need on a dayly basis shouldn't be. To all rules there are exceptions. ;-) -- Amedee Van Gasse |
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