Re: Word repaginates continuously
- From: "David Hazel" <DavidHazel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:52:02 -0700
Most of the affected documents are manuscripts for stories which I write in
my spare time, so their structure is very simple (chapter headings and text,
all in 12-point Courier New font). One, however, was a business document
which has a few embedded tables and a company logo (graphics) on the first
page. I also, this evening, came across some symptoms of the problem with a
business letter I had written a month or so ago (also containing a logo). So
there is no common factor, really, other than Normal.dot and Word itself. For
what it's worth, saving the document as RTF and then re-loading and re-saving
in Word format seems to fix the problem. Which only adds to the mystery, as
far as I'm concerned, because the end result is still using the same template
as the version I start with. I really can't believe that ALL of these
documents suddenly became corrupted at the same time yesterday.
I could almost believe there is malicious software at work here, except I
have done a full scan of my system with Command AntiVirus (finding no
infections), and I also scanned with PestPatrol (still nothing). My
anti-virus software is bang up-to-date, as it is set to automatically update
itself (and, in fact, it updated this morning before I did the scan).
"Tracy" wrote:
> What is the nature of the content of these documents (e.g., long tables,
> graphics, etc.)?
>
>
> "=?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWQgSGF6ZWw=?=" <DavidHazel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in news:2E8B709F-79B5-49C8-9F22-CDAF25EAA20E@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> > 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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