John, I had many of the same problems with WordPerfect. There appears to be a pretty severe bug in the program. I eventually had to abandon using it and we now use NoteTab instead. I was never able to figure out how to stop the crashes, and I had tried it on different operating systems. Chris Chris Prom Assistant University Archivist University of Illinois Archives Room 19 Library (MC-522) 1408 W. Gregory Drive Urbana, IL 61801 web: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ e-mail: [log in to unmask] phone: 217 333 0798 fax: 217 333 2868 On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Thiesen, John wrote: > I'm trying once again to create an EAD finding aid using WP9 and I'm on > a Win2000 machine. I was able to start an eadcorporate document OK. Then > I saved it as "berlin.xml" > > Now when I try to reopen it, WP wants to compile a DTD and fails to do > so because it finds numerous errors. It simply will not let me reopen > the file. > > Any ideas how to force it to comply? > > Also, I've noticed that any time when I'm working in the document and > try to do a copy and paste of a few words WP crashes and terminates > completely. Any ideas how to deal with this? > > John D. Thiesen > Archivist and Co-director of Libraries > Mennonite Library and Archives > Bethel College > 300 E. 27th St. > North Newton, KS 67117-0531 > voice (316) 284-5360 > fax (316) 284-5843 > [log in to unmask] >