Re: Word repaginates continuously

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I've yet to hear the cause of this, but I've successfully gotten rid of the
problem in two documents (that I can remember, at least) using my
troubleshooting methods.
http://www.officearticles.com/word/recover_a_corrupt_microsoft_word_document.htm

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"David Hazel" <DavidHazel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Since late this afternoon, my Word software has developed a problem
whereby
> it continually repaginates some of my documents (not all, just some). I
have
> observed the problem in documents derived from three different template
files
> (none of them Normal.dot), and the problem is in multiple documents, not
just
> in one or two. In the documents that show the problem, if I switch to
Normal
> View (I usually work in Page Layout View), the page number shows correctly
> initially, and then changes to say "Page 0 Sec 1 1/1", as if the
document
> was on both page 0 and page 1 of 1.
>
> Other symptoms:
> - When I first load one of the offending documents, it initially shows I'm
> on page 1 of 2 (these are documents with multiple pages, mostly in the
> hundreds), and remains like that.
> - If I Page Down, the page count begins to go up, as if Word is
repaginating
> - After a few seconds, the page counting re-starts
> - It then begins to repaginate rapidly, showing "Word is repaginating
x.doc,
> page n. Press Esc to cancel." (I do not normally get this message while
> repagination is occurring).
> - The only template file that has changed today is Normal.dot. None of the
> other templates from which these documents are derived have changed
recently
> (going by their Modified dates).
>
> I have tried:
> - Deleting Normal.dot and making Word re-create it
> - Restoring Normal.dot from a backup copy from yesterday evening (before
the
> problem manifested itself)
> - Repairing my Office installation
>
> I have found articles about troubleshooting damaged Word documents, but I
am
> not yet convinced that this is my problem, given all of the above (I
hadn't
> even touched some of these files today until AFTER I first observed the
> problem). I have good anti-virus software (Command AntiVirus), and have
> scanned both my templates and the documents showing the error, and have
found
> no infections (in any case, I am not in the habit of opening attachments
in
> odd-looking emails).
>
> Can anyone suggest other possible causes of these symptoms?
>
> Is there any software I can use to verify corruption of a Word document?
The
> procedures outlined in Article 826864 are a bit hit and miss, and that
> article doesn't even say what it means by instruction 1: "Look for similar
> behaviour in other documents". Okay, yes, I've looked and found it. WHAT
DOES
> THAT MEAN??? Does it mean I DON'T have corruption or that I DO? I have not
> found similar behaviour in other software. Again, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN???
The
> article is a bit of a chocolate teapot in this respect. I also don't have
an
> "Open and Repair" option on my Open dialog box, so the first suggested
remedy
> doesn't even look possible.
>


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