Preventing and Solving PageMaker Bad Record Index Errors

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Enclosed find a word document that has information

about a bunch of applications that support Apple Events.

I found it on AppleLink. I don't remember seeing it submitted...



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though one person was using Stacker without any problems. One person
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I went ahead, installed Stacker and got rid of Autodoubler. This
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good. Here come the messages:
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Original posting:

I am about to go this route, and was wondering if any have travelled
it before me. I am about to dump Autodoubler (2.0.3), which is spinning my
Powerbook drive up every thirty seconds, and which is incompatible
with Quicken 4.0 and macBible 3.0. I'm running Stacker on my HP 95,
and it just seems to work. I want to try it on my PB 100 8/40, and


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When I recently had a PageMaker 5.0 file go belly-up on me because of a
"'Bad Record Index'" error, I collected many tips on dealing with this
ominous problem which I thought I would share. I am sending you a
detailed set of instructions which may be of use to others for placing
in the archives.

Dealing with "Bad Record Index" errors in PageMaker.

The main points are these:

Prevention:

1. Update to PM 5.0a (but do turn off ALL inits first; the installer is
a killer otherwise).
2. In Preferences, make sure "Save smaller" is checked.