>By the way, my guess is that a Word or Excel file hardly has the chance to become fragmented because the whole is done in a single write, so there is virtually no chance for something else to intrude while it is written.
Also, in Word (similar in PowerPoint) the entire file is written in a single write, only if you turned off "Fast Save" - or Word has "fast saved" for the last 15 times (the 16th. time, a "full save" is done).
Otherwise, for any changes done
including deletions, Word will append information to the end of the existing file.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
