Re: Word repaginates continuously

Anne,

Thanks for the pointer. The link you gave me said much the same thing as the
two previous articles I had found, but much more concisely. The RTF method
seems to have worked, but I'm still not convinced it was file corruption. One
of the files I've just recovered was set read-only, and was like that before
I experienced the problem with it. At no time did I try re-saving it after it
showed problems, and its template has not changed in some while. So I can't
see how any corruption could have crept into it from yesterday's problem.

I want to add one more thing about Normal.dot: even with the "Prompt to save
Normal template" option selected, I am finding the "modified" date on
Normal.dot changes without me being prompted to save changes to it. So Word
does appear to overwrite something in here, even if it isn't telling me so.
This was the reason I focussed my efforts on fixing that file and on making
sure Word itself wasn't corrupt. I can't see any other point of commonality
between the files that were showing the problem (one of them I hadn't touched
in a few weeks, and I wasn't the last person to edit it anyway).


"Anne Troy" wrote:

> 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
>
> *******************
> ~Anne Troy
>
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>
>
> "David Hazel" <DavidHazel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:2E8B709F-79B5-49C8-9F22-CDAF25EAA20E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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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