Re: PC Word file hangs Mac Word 2008
- From: John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:09:07 +0930
Yes, there are a few of us who know how to fix it, but the fix can be
laborious. It is much faster to go back to the PC and get a fresh copy if
you can.
The cause is a corrupt paragraph. There may be more than one, and they are
usually immediately before or after a table or graphic.
There's a quick way and a slow way. The quick way loses all the formatting
and all the graphics.
Quick Way:
1) Close the file.
2) From Word, use File>Open
3) Change "Enable" at the top of the dialog to "Recover text from any file"
4) Navigate to the file and click Open.
You will get just the text, no formatting, no graphics, no headers and
footers, no footnotes ...
If you have a little more time (a LOT more time...!)
Slow Way:
1) Open the document
2) Press Command + period (.) to stop the repagination.
3) Change the View to "Draft"
If Word crashes when you do this, then you will have to go back to the PC
and get a fresh copy.
4) Divide the file in half, and save both halves under new file names.
Make sure you save in the new .docx format. You will never fix this if you
try to use the old format.
5) If there is only one corrupt paragraph, the bad one will be in one half,
the other half will behave properly.
6) Divide the bad half in half...
7) Keep this up until you have only one paragraph in each half :-) Then
you know which the bad paragraph is.
8) Delete it then re-type it into the document. Do NOT copy any part of
the bad paragraph, or you will copy the problem and you'll have to start
over.
This method will keep everything in the document except the bad paragraphs
I told you it was laborious! But if you have great patience, you will fix
the document this way.
Hope this helps
On 27/04/08 2:06 AM, in article ee99a5b.-1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Glasair2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <Glasair2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
I've been trying to open a PC Word file on my Mac 2008 Word program. When I
try to open it, it goes into an infinite repagination routine until, at some
point, it just hangs. I let it run to the end once and it crashed at about
35,000 pages. The actual document is 107 pages long.
I've tried to take it back to the PC and do a save-as as an xml, web page,
rtf, and Word rtf, and always get the same result.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
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