Editing Hell, part 7bajillion

[valarltd]

This time it's not the editor's fault. Or mine

I HATE .rtf with the burning passion of a thousand fiery suns.  I spent 4 hours redoing most of what i did yesterday, plus jerry-rigging a solution to get my hidden edits out of the document. (this meant using Bun's computer, making changes on my laptop, and e-mailing the changes to my desktop. In .doc format!)

I know, bitch bitch bitch, at least I'm getting published.
I just hate doing the same work more than once.

Comments

[reannon.livejournal.com]

I'm confused. RTF is supposed to exactly the same save for fancy formatting. Are you using Microsoft Word to save your .docs in .rtf? I'm not at all sure what hidden edits are, either, but the final document should be the same in .doc and .rtf unless something has gone spectacularly wrong.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

What's gone wrong is that I use Open Office.
And half the time Yahoo eats .rtf like it's popcorn.

Hidden edits are edits that you can turn on or off. And even though I had them on, I couldn't see them in an .rtf in Open Office. I had to use a windoze machine and Word Perfect.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

UGH. :( You know, I gots me a friend who works at Microsloth. Maybe to hook you up with a very low-cost REAL version of Word? I can try to set that up if you're interested.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I like Open Office. It's very stable.
And it reads every format...except when it barfs on .rtf

My editor and I are using .doc from here on out.

[jlm121.livejournal.com]

Sorry about editing hell, but I do find it hilarious that you and I both use "with the burning passion of a thousand fiery suns" frequently.