corrupt word doc fix?
Carol Chung
a particular Word document. I tried the suggestion of pasting the contents
into a new file but keep getting the corrupt message. I've run a virus-scan
but found nothing in that area.
Any suggestions?
-thanks,
Carol Chung
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Kathy Jacobs
When you pasted the file contents into a new file, did you include the
last paragraph mark? If so, try it again without the final paragraph
mark and see if the corruption message goes away.
Another option is to save the file as a new RTF document and see if that
conversion gets rid of the corrupt information. IF it does, then
re-save the RTF as a Word document and you should be good to go again.
One last option I can offer is to open the document with StarOffice,
which will translate the document to an older version of Word. This
will also (usually) strip the corrupt information out. However, be
forewarned that this option will also get rid of some of your
formatting.
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Chung
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:40 AM
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Subject: corrupt word doc fix?
Hi, I'm getting a message "this document may be corrupt" when I try to
open
a particular Word document. I tried the suggestion of pasting the
contents
into a new file but keep getting the corrupt message. I've run a
virus-scan
but found nothing in that area.
Any suggestions?
-thanks,
Carol Chung
bryan.w...@amd.com
I never found out what caused it, but I used to get occasional corrupt files
in '95 where that technique was the only thing that would fix it. I never
found out why, however, but I suspect that it was some sort of non-visible
file header information that was appended to the file above the first line.
FWIW, these files occurred most frequently after thunderstorms.
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Chung [mailto:cych...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:40 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: corrupt word doc fix?
Hi, I'm getting a message "this document may be corrupt" when I try to open
a particular Word document. I tried the suggestion of pasting the contents
into a new file but keep getting the corrupt message. I've run a virus-scan
but found nothing in that area.
Newman, Sarah
The Word MVP site has an article on fixing corrupt documents. Try the
suggestions in http://mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Chung [mailto:cych...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:40 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: corrupt word doc fix?
Hi, I'm getting a message "this document may be corrupt" when I try to open
a particular Word document. I tried the suggestion of pasting the contents
into a new file but keep getting the corrupt message. I've run a virus-scan
but found nothing in that area.
Any suggestions?
-thanks,
Carol Chung
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KMcLa...@chrysalis-its.com
Apparently, the makers of Word assumed that when
writing documents, you would not ever make more
than 1500 transitions between numbered and bulleted
items/conditions, in a single doc.
A much-used, much-revised working document in our
department was recently giving "may be corrupt"
messages and a helpful IT wonk found a reference
on the Microsoft web site. The problem file, by
the way, had nearly 2200 of the offending transitions.
Go figure.
Anyway, the following is a paraphrase of
the Microsoft page. This will not help much if you
have REAL corruption. It will help if you have bogus
"corrupted" messages... in Windoze. (We mostly use NT, here.)
***Begin***
A change to registry is needed to accept a larger range of switches between
numbering and bullets.
Here's the change needed:
· Run "Regedit"
· Select the following key in the Windows registry:
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Word\Options
· On the Edit menu, click New, click DWord Value, and then add the
following registry value:
o Value Name: LTOverflowRecovery
o Value: 1
· On the Registry menu, click Exit.
And voilà! Your document is fixed and no more annoying messages.
***End***
/kevin
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Carol Chung [mailto:cych...@hotmail.com]
|Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:40 PM
|To: TECHWR-L
|Subject: corrupt word doc fix?
|
|
|Hi, I'm getting a message "this document may be corrupt" when
|I try to open
|a particular Word document. I tried the suggestion of pasting
|the contents
|into a new file but keep getting the corrupt message. I've run
|a virus-scan
|but found nothing in that area.
Becca Price
--- KMcLa...@chrysalis-its.com wrote:
| A much-used, much-revised working document in our
| department was recently giving "may be corrupt"
| messages and a helpful IT wonk found a reference
| on the Microsoft web site. The problem file, by
| the way, had nearly 2200 of the offending transitions.
| Go figure.
How does one figure out how many such transactions there are in
a document without going in and counting them manually?
-b
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Becca Price
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from selecting New to open the document from the OS, rather than
double-clicking or using the std Open. Once opened in this way,
copy-all-but-the-last-para-mark to a new doc.
Steve Hudson
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Enter the VB IDE, press Alt+F11.
Ensure the Immediate Window is displayed - defaults to bottom of screen. If
not, press Ctrl+G to show this.
Select the Immediate Window and type: ? activedocument.lists.count
If the resulting figure is higher than the number of defined list templates
(each outline list counts as 9 lists of course) you have a problem.
One way to fix this problem is to use my ListTrix macros located on the HATT
site on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HATT. They are in the files area, in
the Software Tools section.
Steve Hudson
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-----Original Message-----
From: Becca Price
How does one figure out how many such transactions there are in
a document without going in and counting them manually?
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Alan Oslick
I went to the "Outline" view, I found what looked like a tiny paper clip in
the document's far left margin. Deleting a line above and below the paper
clip so far has cleared up the problem. (Note: One of those with whom I
collaborate often works late at home. Somewhere between Word 2000 and her
home Word 97, we encounter problems such as the document corruption warning
or floating or missing graphics.)
Regards, Alan
KMcLa...@chrysalis-its.com
Word documents, causing "...document may be corrupted"
messages in Word, Becca Price [mailto:becca...@yahoo.com]
asked:
|How does one figure out how many such transactions there are in
|a document without going in and counting them manually?
Here's what our IT guy said:
*********begin ********
Click on Tools>Macro>Visual Basic Editor.
Then select View>Immediate Window.
In that Window, type:
?activedocument.ListTemplates.count then hit
the enter key. As you type this line, it will
pop up the available terms, such as "listtemplates"
and "count".
After hitting enter, you will see the count.
********* end *********
Again, we're using mostly WinNT here, if that
makes a difference to anybody's results...
FWIW, the Word developers were probably right,
for the most part. Only a couple of our docs
had the problem, and those were Test Case
documents that get constantly revised and
passed around among department members,
and they had TONS of check-box bullets in 'em,
along with many, many, many numbered detailed steps.
Most people's documents will never approach the
default limit.... but apparently enough of them HAVE
that MS Tech Support came up with the workaround.
Cheers,
/kevin
johnpark...@gmail.com
1. Change the template
2. Default settings in Word
3. Open windows in safe mode
4. Make a copy of the corrupted file
5. Import straight ASCII text from other Format
If these methods did not work for you, you can find other solutions to your problem.
For information http://recoverlostdatatools.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/how-to-handle-error-word-cannot-open-the-existing-square/