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    - Word: Auto File Recovery I am having a problem with Word Auto recovery. I had a file lock up on me yesterday and when I start Word from Windows I get this file popping up in Auto Recovery mode. When I try to save it Word completely locks up, stops running and the only thing I can do is use CTRL+ALT+DEL to get to the Task Manager to shut down the application. Word will not let me get past this Auto Recovery option to let me open any other files. Should I reinstall the software to override or drop kick the computer out the window? Any advice anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103896
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    - Office Applications Hang on Look In or opening a directory I have word haning when i click on Look In or on a Directory to see files in that directory. HOur glass shows, click on CLose dialogue, app dumps. IE does not respond to looking up any addresses entered, unless from a short vut. Seems to be virus free as per NAV Corp edition, done an office repair, cleared temp files, etc. Help appreciated....thanks Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103893
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    - insufficent memory We seem to be having problems with word at the moment - everytime i go to the macros section i get a message saying insufficent memory - save document. We have done the following but to no avail. * Deleted our copy of normal.dot and re-created it - tried to get back into the macro's section but no luck * Ran a full virus scan on PC * Re-installed Office on the PC * Installed the Office Servicepack 2. The same normal.dot is working fine on a different PC. We are currently running Word 2003 on XP Professional - can anyone help on this. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103890
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    - cannot open folders when accessing my documents in word or excel While in Word or Excel since the last microsoft updates, when I go to new, the my documents window appears, when i try and double click to open a subfolder the system freezes. It occurs in Word and Excel, I have not tried the other products. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103885
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    - Windows dosen't recognise word doc saved as text with layout When a Word document is saved as a "text plus layout" it gets the extension *.ans or *.asc Niether of these are then recognised by Windows which reports it doesn't know the program that made them!! Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103881
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    - After MS auto update, "Save as..." crashes Word There was an MS auto update on my computer yesterday, and now whenever I try to save a document using "Save as..." Word crashes. I can save a document directly into My Documents using "Save" but using "Save as..." and trying to select a different directory has crashed Word (application not responding) four times now. This function used to work just fine. I am using Windows XP Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600 and Office Pro 2003 SP2. Any suggestions? Thanks Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103869
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    - Word shuts down when I select file-open. I am trying to finish 5 projects that are due on April 26th. Each time I try to open a file in word it shuts down. I have tried every way to open a file and it will not. Help - - soon???!!! Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103867
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    - How do i fix saving a document if the program keeps freezing? I try to save my file, but when i click save as, the program doesnt respond. Same thing happens when i try to open a file. Printing, and about everything else works. Can anyone help me? Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103866
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    - Latest download seems to have broken save as in word saveas? The latest download causes word 2003 to lock up when attempting saveas and you use the drop down to change folder/drive location. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103865
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    - Visio and Word Hang Work lost. embedd visio inside word I have the latest professional versions of office 2003 and visio 2003, with latest service packs and updates. I should be able to drag and drop a Visio file into my word document, but it hangs both software. Visio takes over 100% of my computer porcessing time and never quits, Word I cant quit either. I also tried insert object from the menu, same thing. Is it great to spend hundreds of dollars for Microsoft software that doesn't even work reliably. I'm so fed up with MS. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103862
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    - Word 2002 Crash - bullets & numbering Running Office XP (Word 2002; 10.6775 6735; SP3) Word has just started becoming unresponsive if I try to format a number of paragraphs with a wingding font character in a color other than automatic. I can format a single paragraph with no problem. I have been using this version of Word and this wingding character for a couple of years with no problems. Thanks for any help. Jim W. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103861
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    - HOW TO USE WORD 2000 how to stop word from editing your web page Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103860
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    - I cannot insert in Word 2002 and I have SP3 installed I use Outlook to download my email and when I installed a new hard drive, the Word program does not allow me to insert at all - graphics, files, etc. I have downloaded all the Service Packs. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103859
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    - scale pages i want to scale down 6 lelal size pages to fit on one legal size ( 3 on front 3 on back landscaped) was able to do it on a old word program i am not to good with computers please make it very simple Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103855
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    - Word 2003 Viewer Question Does anyone know if there are specific fonts the viewer uses? We have documents that have used some symbols from Wingding2 but they are being converted to Wingdings when displayed in the Viewer. Any ideas? I installed the fonts on the device but still no luck and I could not find any detailed information regarding what the Word 2003 viewer does not support. Let me know if you have any suggestions. tuttamay(removethispart)@comcast.net Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103853
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    - My documents dropdown does not open then word does not respond When I try to open a word document by using the dropdown, look in menu, it locks up and "open (not responding)" is shown. Word closes down and an error message to Microsoft is displayed. If I use the "up one level" icon I can search for the document I want. I also find that when I have a document open and want to save as, I have the same problem and Word closes down again. Office 2000 Pro. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103852
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    - Update MS06-015 It seems that many of us have encountered the same problem after MS Automatic Update MS06-015". We challenge you [Microsoft] to fix the problem. For those of us who have no clue, roll back our systems to the previous version. We were very happy then. We should not have to â??Restoreâ?? for your oversight. After you do this, adjust your updates to take into consideration the effect that that your Automatic Updates will have on our systems. Thank you, for all of us. Drew Keyes keyesd@bellsouth.net Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103846
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    - cannot enter key to fix lock up I've found my way into the Registry Editor to enter the key to fix the problem, however, it won't let me. I click on the REG-DWORD File, but it won't let me change the value name.. Am I doing something wrong? I've never done this kind of thing before. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103843
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    - Cannot open online files using office 2003 sp2 After applying the lates security patches I am unable to open online files from within office applications, Word and Excel. If I go to the mapped drive and open the file it will launch with the appropriate application, but if I try to save or open another file, the application becomes unresponsive. I can open, save, save as, and close local files with no problem. And yes the user has full rights to the online files. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103842
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    - Can I prevent word locking up problem on other workstations? I'm wondering if I can enter the registry key that this article: See "Problems in Windows Explorer or the Windows shell after you install security update MS06-015" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918165 tells me to enter in everyone's computer even if they are NOT having the problem. Employees have lost very important documents because of the problem and I would like to prevent that from happening as much as possible. Will it cause a problem on computers NOT having the problem if I enter the registry key? Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103841
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    - Cannot save in Word. System locks up. Help I am unable to save an open document. In the save panel as soon as I click on the file i want to save to the apllication locks up. I can only get out of it through End Task in Task Manager. Help Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103835
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    - save ns hangs looks like a solution has been found! Thanks to the person who has supplied it. My further question is... why does this affect some users but no others? Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103834
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    - Word - Cut and Paste For some unknown reason teh following has begun to occur and I could use some help to fix the problem. When I cut a string of test and attempt to paste it over highlighted text, it does not type over the highlighted text. It merely inserts it. I have no idea why this started. Can anyone help? Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103831
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    - Opening & saving to folders. Pgm hangs. using word 2003 & XP. Word was not responding last night when I closed system so I clicked on end now. Today I am unable to open folders in Word or save files. Can Open a folder/file via Start and my documents. can u help plse. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103825
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    - Back Up Registry Where do I start? My computer automatically installed the latest security updates last night. Some of my programs are hanging when opening or saving â?? MS Word & Excel. My System Restore was not on for reasons I need not explain here. I have read the security update MS06-015. I intend to change my registry settings as Microsoft suggests. However, the Windows XP Backup Utility hangs just like Word and Excel so I canâ??t backup my System State. Is there a manual way to back it up? Thank you for your help. Drew Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103824
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    - Why does Word lock up when attempting to save a file Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103822
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    - fatal error Have lost the ability to save, open, save as from both Word and Excel. Every time I hit save as, or open file, the program freezes and "non-responding" comes up, causing closure. Upon opening, the "lost file" shows, but I get the same problem when I want to save it. Anyone had this problem? HELP! Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103821
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    - auto close on save not working When I make changes to a document, Word is no longer prompting me to save the changes when I close the application. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the application, applying all updates, replacing normal.dot... nothing seems to solve the problem. I have background saves and autorecover turned on in the options, and the auto_close macro appears to be present. Can anyone tell me if there is something else that might be causing this problem? I am particularly worried since uninstalling and reinstalling Word did not correct the issue. Thanks. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103819
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    - Word2003: Wrong "Manually duplex" with duplex printers Hello, we have trouble using Word2003 SP2 with the inbuild duplex capabilities of printers like HP Laserjet 5N. The printer is connected with a WinNT4 printserver. I installed several instances of the printer and shared them. Every instance has its own settings, so e.g. one is for "normal" print and another for "duplex". The idea is to select the appropriate printer instance instead of changing the printer settings. We are using this way for many years But now with Word2003 the problem comes: When I select the "normal" printer in print dialog there is a checkbox "Manually duplex" (which is unchecked). That's ok. Do I select the "duplex" printer this checkbox disappears. That's ok too because the printer can handle the duplex itself. But: The hidden selection seems to switch to "Manually duplex". Word sends e.g. page 1 and 3 to the printer, opens the dialog to ask me to turn the paper and then sends the pages 2 and 4 (or vice versa). The result are two sheets of paper: page 1 + 3 and 2 + 4. This has to be a bug I think, or am I wrong? Is anybody here and found a solution for this problem? Many thanks in advance for an answer. Best regards Wolfgang Meyer Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103813
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    - Cannot save files in Word Not sure if this is yet another manifestation of the ongoing problems with MS06-015 but whenever I try to save a file I get a "disk is full or too many files are open" error message. My disk is not full and I have no other files open. I have tried the fix listed in MS06-015 and this has not worked. Any suggestions? -- Thanks Julianne Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103809
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    - I can't open Word documents from a subfolder? well not me, but a firend claims if she tries to open any word documents from anywhere but her my documents folder that the computer freezes and she has to reboot. Any ideas? she's using either MS Word XP or MS Word 2003. I haven't seen this happen but trying to get ideas before I troubleshoot for her. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103792
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    - Word 2003 Fonts missing in user profile Admin profile o.k. There are only about 10 fonts listed for a particular users profile. There are spaces like 10 rows of no titles of fonts and then a couple is list and more space. If I log off as user and log on as Administrator there seems to be all the fonts no blank lines. First I did a repair logon as Administrator, did not help user profile fonts still missing. Logon as user, did a repair and no change to Word in user profile ( fonts still missing) I uninstall Office and reinstalled office in administrator profile. When I logon as user the profile was the same as before I uninstalled Office. If I go to fonts folder in Control Panel all is there. The printer prints a test page perfectly. Apparently the uninstall of Office did not correct the problem, is there a way to del the causing files or folder that contributing to the uninstall not clearing out everything. Or am I missing something. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103791
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    - Word when I try the file - open, it hangs and won't work My daughter downloaded a bunch of recipes and then tried to stop printing them. 2 days later, I have cleared the temporary files, but when I try file - open - it just hangs up. I can get the most recent files open, the ones on the bottom of the file menu, but nothing through file - opn. Tag: How do I change the small blocks to letters? Tag: 103767
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When I open my MS Word document, I get small boxes instead of letters and
words. How can I get my words?

RE: How do I change the small blocks to letters? by Richard123

Richard123
Fri Apr 21 09:39:01 CDT 2006

This sounds like you do not have the correct font installed on your PC. Have
you received this file from someone who may have different fonts on their PC?
Or have you recently changed computers and left your fonts behind? My simple
advice would be to select all the text (Ctrl+A) and change the font to
something basic such as Times New Roman or Arial.

Hope this helps.

"antoya225" wrote:

> When I open my MS Word document, I get small boxes instead of letters and
> words. How can I get my words?

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