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thousands of pages added automatically
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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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" 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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thousands of pages added automatically
Hi Greg,
I am also having this problem ... my document is 108 pages long, yet my document keeps repagnating and counting up the pages. I cannot stop this unlike you. It does not happen a few versions back and all I have done is add pictures and captions. I hope there is something we can do to resolve this counting. Regards Stephen -----Original Message----- 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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thousands of pages added automatically
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" 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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thousands of pages added automatically
Hi,
I've had this problem with Word "adding pages", and traced the problem to a Enhanced Meta File graphic that was inserted on the first page. If you can, try removing any large graphics from the document. A graphic does not have to be physically large on the screen to be 'large', it could be a highly-compressed PNG, BMP or JPG that Word somehow expands. Hope this helps. Nick "Jay Freedman" wrote in 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" 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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thousands of pages added automatically
Yes it could be one of the graphics files, I have about 50
graphics files in this document ... all the graphics pictures are required, and I could spend a long time trying to guess which one ... maybe this is my only option. Thanks for responding. Regards Stephen -----Original Message----- Hi, I've had this problem with Word "adding pages", and traced the problem to a Enhanced Meta File graphic that was inserted on the first page. If you can, try removing any large graphics from the document. A graphic does not have to be physically large on the screen to be 'large', it could be a highly-compressed PNG, BMP or JPG that Word somehow expands. Hope this helps. Nick "Jay Freedman" wrote in 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" 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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I found deleting image by image did not resolve the
problem. Copying the contents to another file solved the problem ... maybe some corruption of a few bytes inside the problematic file could not be resolved by word. Stephen -----Original Message----- 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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