Re: Exasperating mis-alignment

From: Suzanne S. Barnhill (sbarnhill_at_mvps.org)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:15:18 -0600

If you opened the file directly from the floppy, it may well be corrupted.
Have you tried the Open and Repair route? Or treating the document as
corrupt and trying some of the fixes described at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm? 

-- 
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> "Beth Melton" <bmelton@NoSpam4Memvps.org> wrote:
>
> >I'd say it has to do with the mix of graphics and text. If you want to
> >email it to me I'll take a look and see if I can determine the exact
> >cause. Remove "NoSpam4Me" to obtain a valid email address.
>
> Great - thanks, Beth.
>
> I've emailed the 275 KB file ADI.doc as an attachment. It's also
> posted here temporarily.
> http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/ADI.doc
>
> However, be warned that there seems to be something very odd about
> this file. Whenever I try to Save As, even before doing *anything* to
> it, I get that 'Word has done bad; send a report to MS' message.
> Oddly, my wife doesn't appear to get that message on her PC (also XP).
> I got the file fro her via floppy , so I find this an additional
> mystery!
>
> -- 
> Terry, West Sussex, UK
> Sun 12 December 2004, 21:27 UK time

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