Re: thousands of pages added automatically

From: Stephen Ling-Winston (slingwinston_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/08/04

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    Hi Jay,

    Can you suggest any action for a Word 97 document that
    does the same ? I loaded my word document on another
    machine (XP) running a newer version of Word and the same
    thing happened (more quickly) ... pages kept appearing.

    Regards Stephen

    >-----Original Message-----
    >Hi Greg,
    >
    >The symptom indicates that there is corruption somewhere
    in the
    >document, and the steps you've already taken are
    appropriate. In Word
    >2000 and above, though, there's a method that's more
    often effective
    >(http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm):
    Save the
    >document as a web page and then reload the html back into
    Word.
    >
    >--
    >Regards,
    >Jay Freedman http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx?
    JayFreedman
    >Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
    >
    >"Greg Skulmoski" <skulmoski@hotmail.com> wrote:
    >
    >>Hi, I have a 190 pg (double spaced) Word 2000 document
    >>that I am having problems with.
    >>
    >>In certain spots in the document when I add, delete or
    >>modify, Word automatically adds thousands of pages. On
    the
    >>status bar at the bottom ("number/number"), the counter
    >>begins adding pages. I have manually stopped this after
    it
    >>has ballooned to 12,000 pages.
    >>
    >>What is wrong with my document? and How can I fix it?
    >>
    >>Things I have done:
    >>1. renamed the document
    >>2. copied and paste special (unformatted)
    >>3. copied all but the troublesome paragraphs
    >>4. applied the format painter from "good" paragraphs
    >>to "bad" paragraphs,
    >>5. checked for viruses
    >>6. re-booted
    >>7. tried working with the file on different computers
    >>8. etc.
    >>
    >>Thank you for any advice.
    >>
    >>Greg
    >
    >.
    >

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