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Word 2007, that is.
Finished typing my master's thesis with twenty or so beautiful drawings, the only thing left to add the TOC, list of tables and the list of figures. All my drawings are contained in the Word canvas feature so last night I proceed to add captions to my figures, create the list of figures and save. Close Word.
Make coffee, sit on my balcony, have a ciggie, feel blissful.
Go back in to send the paper to my mentor for the final review. Open Word to export the docx to PDF. All my drawings gone. Gone. Just empty rectangles instead of canvases. Cold sweat. OK, I have backups all over the place so the drawings are not lost completely, but still it will take me two days to finish the bloody thing again.
Did search the internet, same thing happened to a few other poor sods but no solution.
Canvas, I hate you. Word 2007, I hate you. Docx, I hate you. MS, I hate you.
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I hope you get your thesis back 
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No problem, I have backups, but it will take me a couple of days to recreate it. It's just that this never happened to me before. I type all my papers in Word but I always use the doc format. I didn't even realize I was using docx this time until Word went left.
modified 12-Oct-15 3:07am.
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Computer Science? And you're not using Latex?
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Yes, Latex is THE ONLY ONE to use for theses, scientific documents.
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Same thought 
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"Fortunately, we don't need details - because we can't solve it for you." - OriginalGriff
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Yes, CS. Latex is OK, but next time I'll just regular rope.
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Read it as 'World is Hungry', and was about to point to ... Snickers. 
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Had the same thing happen to me when I was at Uni suddenly nice detailed circuit diagrams become red X's...solved it by separating each chapter and importing and printing from there mind you that was with Office XP haven't they figured out how to fix that... 
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What does it mean to be British?
One of the British national daily newspapers asked readers "What does it mean to be British?" Some of the emails were hilarious but this one from a chap in Switzerland stood out;
“Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, and then traveling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.
And the most British thing of all?
Suspicion of anything foreign."
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/ravi
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You liked it?
Tell that to the cretin who reports my posts as spam.
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Yes, I thought it was funny.
/ravi
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Thanks.
The aforementioned cretin, who probably hasn't yet figured out how to wipe his butt after using the pot, has already marked my comment on this weeks survey as spam.
Most likely, this will also go into the Spam bin before it gets reviewed and posted.
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I suppose that last sentence in your OP hit a nerve.
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That's funny. It describes a lot of Americans suburbanites, substitute the VW for Honda or Toyoda, unless they are single, then it German luxury all the way.
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jgakenhe wrote: unless they are single, then it German luxury all the way.
Guilty as charged. 
/ravi
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That's about right!
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That joke is older than me.
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I can see the potential for this thread to go to soapbox material, at anytime.
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He forgot drinking tea!
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HobbyProggy wrote: He forgot drinking Chinese tea!
FTFY! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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No, No, No, learn your history STOLEN Chinese tea grown in India, by the East India Company! 
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Of course those curries we eat are actually very British, and we have plenty of fantastic beer now, and yes tea, lots of it.
We can't afford our own 'British' cars.
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