When I save the log file, it asks about Encoded text. What gives?
When you close the log file, you may be asked “Do you want to save the changes you made to abacus.log?”. If you do, click on “Yes”; click on “No” to close the file without saving your changes, and click on “Cancel” to keep the log file open without saving the changes. If you elect to save the changes (“Yes”) you will then get a 2nd question box. This one will ask you if you “want to save abacus.log in this format” (referring to an Encoded text file). If you click on “Yes”, which is what we recommend, the log file will then be saved using the formatting that we want (plain ASCII text). If you click on “No”, Word will then expect you to make your own arrangements for formatting and saving the file. This latter option may be appropriate if you plan on saving no more line counts to the file, and you just want to spice it up a little with a letterhead, image, or some other features that require you to save the file as a Word document or in some other special format.
