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    - Lost data in protected form Hi, I am using MS Office 2003 with SP2. I have A Word protected form includes data - when sending to print or emailing data (received) disappears. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121074
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    - Word won't open I have an XP home edition 2002 with service pack 3. When I try to open Word, I get an error message that reads" This patch package could not be opened. Verify that you can access it or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windowes installer patch package". I am also unable to open Outlook and receive the same message (along with two others). Can these problems be related? How can I fix them? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121072
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    - Hyperlink to wprd or excel documents dont work I have a simple aspx page with 2 links, one to a word 2007 document and another to an excel 2007 worksheet. Both dont work, I get a page not found error. when I right click and try to save the target, from the link, I get another error saying that the requested file doesnt exist. While I can browse to the location and open those files by double clicking on them. Any solution? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121070
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    - keyboard shortcut to toggle windows inexplicably stopped working I have Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac. I frequently have multiple documents/windows open at once. I use the Command+` feature to toggle through the open windows. That feature is now no longer working in Microsoft Word, though it still works for me in Excel. I know it's not a problem with the system more broadly, but something gone haywire in Word itself. Any suggestions about what got inexplicably turned off? Perhaps related problems: As I've looked at help posts online, I'm not finding "Customize" or "Macro" under my tools menu. But perhaps they are not located there in this version of Word? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121058
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    - Starnge formatting anomaly when saving a doc I have a customer with a strange occurance when she saves a doc. The system is running XP Pro SP2, lots of RAM and HD space. There is no AV software installed on this system, as it has no contact with the outside world at all. Her Word 2000 is the original release, I believe, with a version number 9.0.2720. Her docs are used in legal realms so she has full justification on. We tried changing that, but it did not change the problem. We cannot make the issue happen all the time, but at least 2 of her current docs have this issue. Here it is, as best I can format for newgroups. Basically she has several indented paragraphs with the usual kind of layout; 9. Blah Blah Blah... 1. Blah Blah Blah... (a) Blah Blah Blah... (b) Blah Blah Blah... (c) Blah Blah Blah... (d) Blah Blah Blah... And so on... Now when she saves the doc and reopens it, it has been changed and looks like so; 9. Blah Blah Blah... 1. Blah Blah Blah... (a) Blah Blah Blah... (b) Blah Blah Blah... (q) Blah Blah Blah... (d) Blah Blah Blah... The (q) is not a typo, nor are the extra spaces after it. Word actually changes the doc on save or loading to look like it does. There are about 25 items that get changed and reformatted, so it makes it hard for her to keep and reuse the docs later on. If she prints before she saves, the output is ok. There is no way to see the doc as it was after it is saved. It is permanently altered, which is why I think it happens on the save routine. Any thoughts on this? Thanks, - Tim - p.s. I am getting Word 2000 SP updates to install next time I go out there. I have to get them at the shop and take them to site, as there is no high speed Internet in her area. -- Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121049
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    - when I open word 2002, word closes, I get an error message When I open word, I try to print but it closes me out and tells me send a error message Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121045
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    - Word closes and I get an error message and then it reopens by it Everytime I use Microsoft Word and then close the program I get an error message. As I send an error report, EVERY TIME, I get a message that says a DIFFERENT tmp. file can not be found and that I should try to find and copy it and save it somewhere else. THESE FILES CAN NOT BE FOUND when I search for them. EVER. Then, magically, Word reopens by itself. I never get info back about what to do, or why I am getting an error message and keep having to send reports. Anyone else have this problem? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121043
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    - ActiveDocument.ApplyTheme results in empty error message box Hello! I try to apply a new Document Theme to my Document with a VBA-Macro. But if i execute my code: ThisDocument.ApplyTheme ("ANANKE 011") a message box pops up, with no text in it and the red error-logo. Can someone tell me how to apply a new theme to the document with VBA? And why theres an empty MessageBox? I'm using Office Word 2007. Yours, Hoazl Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121034
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    - Word gives hour glass too much Hi, I've recently installed Office 2007. I've found when a document is open it will show the hour glass on the screen every 5 to 15 seconds, which pauses the entire application for 3 to 5 seconds I've tried shutting down my antivirus and starting up Word safe mode, which I saw in a previous thread. I checked the auto save option and it is set to every 10 minutes. This is basically make the application useless as it is so painful to type anything. Does anyone have any ideas? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121033
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    - Macro Error in Office 2007 Word I have a machine that has been running Office 07 Pro for a year and then yesterday it started giving an alert message box about macros. The files I am trying to open have no macros in them (if they do I didn't create them). They are simple text documents. I have searched every know website for a solution but can't find one. I have changed every setting in the "Trust Settings" and I still get the same dialogue box. I can click several times and the message finally goes away and the document opens just fine. The problem is within word itself and not the files. I created a new document from Start>All Programs>Microsoft Office>Microsoft Office Word 2007. I still get the same error message. I printed one of the error messages and it has a number at the top of the page which is "Office_201099_Q0", whatever that means. I used the builtin repair application and it found no errors. This is really annoying getting this macro error mesage when there are no macros running. Any help before I "format c:" would be greatly appreciated!:) -- Thanks COA XP Pro SP2 Office 07 DC5750 SFF 2gig Ram 100 gig HD Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121032
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    - Word 2007 Clipboard--only able to capture 2 screen prints When I am in Word 2007, I am only able to capture 2 screen prints. Then the system will tell me that the next print will not be captured, delete items to increase available space. I use to be able to capture up to 24 screen prints in Word 2003. I have the Service Pack 1 installed, but am still having this issue. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121030
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    - New Blank Document is not blank. Something I typed earlier appears on the page each time I go to File to open a New Blank Document in Word. I have to "select all" and "delete" to have a blank page. What did I do and how do I fix this? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121027
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    - Word 2003 Arabic version Error I have a problem when using Arabic version of Word 2003. One I start to work in word, the keyboard does not work untill I press space bar and then the keybord start to work. Unfortunately, It works good with excel and Power Point without any problem. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121022
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    - Word 2007 Stops Working when I try to close it. System: I am running: -Windows Vista Home -Office 2007 -Norton 360 Problem: All programs in office work fine except Word. When I open Word I can type in it, but cannot select any text with mouse. I can use the menu bar and I can see the cursor in the document. When I click the "x" to close it gives me a message "Word has stopped working". Actions taken so far: -I have tried to repair and have also removed and reinstalled to no avail. -I have followed suggestions from the discussion board. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121021
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    - Word 2007 Closes When opening a document MS Word 2007 opens fine, but as soon as I click on a document to open it, Word closes. I don't get any errors or dialog boxes. I am running Word 2007 with SP1. I have also run the diagnostics and it tells me nothing is wrong. -- Jennifer D. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121020
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    - can't open Word 2007 files based on a networked template Word 2007 on Windows XP or Windows 2000 We have corporate Word templates that users access on a local network; users base new files on those corporate templates. However when users work remotely without being connected to the internal network, they cannot open those files--the attempt to open the file causes Word to freeze and then crash. Presumably this is because the file is trying to find the template on the network and that fails when the network connection isn't established. We had a similar problem with Word 2003 and fixed that a few years ago but our IT people haven't been able to fix the problem in this version of Word. In the individual files, we tried clearing the template path but that didn't work. (We did that through Word Options button > Add-Ins > Manage > Templates > Clear but that didn't work.) In the template itself, the above approach (Word Options button > Add- Ins ...) doesn't yield a path that is actually editable. The path, in the template itself, shows up but is not able to be selected or edited. If you have information or suggestions that might help, please let me know. Thank you very much for your time. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121018
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    - How do I stop Word crashing when I use the word 'contact' Every time I use the work 'contact' following another word it sends an error report and I loose my document. -- Jackie Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121016
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    - Disapearing text in a word doc within a form I am using text fields and drop down menu's. I add data to both the text fields & the drop down menu's. I then save and exit the template document. Upon re opening all data added to the drop down menu is saved but the data added to the text fields is lost & ??? (Also when I re open word for a split second I can see the data that was added to the text field when I saved it, then it bizarrely disappears) I have also tested the template document on a different pc with the same version of office. (office xp) When I save the template on this pc all data is still there upon re opening it. ???? This leads me to think its my ms word configuration setting? I'm using Word 2002 (10.6838.6839) SP3 Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121014
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    - Word fonts I asked this question last week, but still need to know. When I loaded the Office 2003 software, not all of the fonts loaded to my computer where I could use them and it did not install a normal.dot. Any suggestions. thanks Theresa Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121012
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    - Index update Changes Page Number -- Word 2007 Word 2007 and previous version 2003/2000 have this problem. When the index is updated, and multiple sections exist, such as a first section numbered i, ii, iii, . . . and a main content section numbered 1, 2, 3, . . . . an index update continues the numbering from section one to the next section. I have read the work around for this in 200/2003 was to use the F9 key to update instead of using the "update index" in the index menu. In 2007 F9 key is not a work around. Anyone else have this problem and any suggestions? -- Corky Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121010
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    - Word 2007 Crash I have had Word 2007 crash several times, and this is the error from the event viewer. I am running on Vista Business. Any ideas about what I should do to prevent this from happening again? ID: 0, Application Name: Microsoft Office Word, Application Version: 12.0.6308.5000, Microsoft Office Version: 12.0.6215.1000. This session lasted 263853 seconds with 14700 seconds of active time. This session ended with a crash. Product Name: 2007 Microsoft Office System Product Version: 12.0.4518.1014 Event ID: 7001 Event SOurce: Microsoft Office 12 Sessions Locale ID: 1033 -- IT Services Help Center Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121009
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    - How can I avoid Word crashing when I download a document? Everytime I try to download a word file (format is irevelant) from Internet Explorer, Word will open but always reports that it cannot find the file I was trying to open. So I have to download the document again. Surely there is some way I can make this process more efficient. Help? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 121007
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    - Word - Across Page Breaks The last paragraph on one page seems to be tied to the First paragraph on the next page. I have a Paragraph Stype Heading1 to begin a new page. When I look at the table of contents, I show not only an entry for the Heading1 paragraph on the the page where I want it, but the same entry on the preceeding page. I checked, and the last paragraph is also a Heading1 Paragraph. (The paragraph is a blank carriage return). When I change that empty paragraph style to Normal, it also changes the first paragraph on the following page to Normal too. The only way I've been able to start the new page with my Heading1 style is to begin the page with a Normal style paragraph (empty) followed by my Heading1 paragraph. This also makes the Table of Contents look correct. But why can't I just do it the way that makes sense? I insert a page break and begin with a Heading1 (or Heading2 or Heading3) paragraph style without affecting the previous page? Stumpped here. Thanks Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120997
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    - Error:Cannot find proofing tools for German(Switzerland). Cannot find proofing tools for German(Switzerland).If you have the proofing tools,try installing or re-installing them.Contact your local reseller to obtain Office proofing tools. The Default Keyboard layout is German.In spell check the language is English(United Kingdom) .When we try to do a spellcheck it throws uo the above error.I tried switching language to English(UK) but it still prompts with this error. But when I change the keyboard layout to English(Uk) everything is fine.But the keyboard on the machine is a German.So dont know wat to do.Please help me. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120990
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    - can't remove Section Break --Continous from document I'm reformatting a document created and edited by two other people. I am inserting section breaks (next page) so I can have different headers in each section. There are existing section breaks (continuous). When I delete one, it changes the previous break from next page to continuous and removes the header. It repeats each time I move up to delete the previous break that was just changed until I finally get back to page one with all breaks removed. Any suggestions? At this point, if I remove them all, I've wasted a whole morning of work. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120982
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    - When Use Cursor to Move Down Page, Some Copy Changes or Disappears Hello, I tried to find something to help through searches but nothing was found. We just got a new laptop and activated Office Home and School Suite. Opened the first assignment from professor and was adding my answers. When I use the cursor to go down to next question, entire sections of the document jump around or disappear entirely. This is highly annoying. What would cause such to occur just from using the cursor? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120981
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    - Format Bullets and Number Causes Word 2003 to Crash I cannot format new or existing documents with Format Bullets and Numbers. This causes Word to stop and send a message to Microsoft. There is no meaningful message with the error. When I started Word in safe mode, Format Bullets and Numbers worked. I tried it again in normal mode after that and got the same error. This started just last week. How do I recover? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120978
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    - Word document content duplicated each time document is opened Each time I open a Word document, the content of the document is duplicated. For example, if I create a new document containing the text "Foo" and Save & Close, the next time I open the document it will contain the text "Foo" twice. It's interesting to note that the scrollbar will jump to the bottom of the document after opening. Content does not duplicate when opening with trusty old 2003. I blew away all of my tmp files, to no avail. Anyone have any idea what's going on here? It's making Word 2007 exciting to say the least. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120977
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    - Format Bullets and Numbering Shuts down Word 2003, why? In any document, new, with or without outlines or bulleted items, when I click on Format/Bullets and Numbering Word simply shuts down with an error sent to Microsoft. The error has no information in it. This started happening last week. I use outline numbered documents all the time. I cannot find any reference to this problem in the knowledge base or anywhere else. How can I recover? I have already tried uninstalling Word 2003 and reinstalling. That did not work. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120975
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    - Word has stopped working Why do I occasionally get an error message that tells me Word has stopped working. I need to reboot to get it working again. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120971
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    - Word 2002/2003 can not save to shared network drive Hi, I have problem starting from few weeks ago that I can open and edit ms-word file from shared network drive but can not save it. Anybody can help me? Thanks, Faisal Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120968
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    - On microsoft word, for some reasoni now cannot type into a file? When i go to open a new or saved word document, it says that the option to edit/type into the document is locked. i cannot do anything on microsoft word and even by looking at the Properties, i cant figure out how to fix it. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120955
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    - Dash conversion on letter plus hyphen Every once in a while, Word 2007 will convert a letter-hyphen sequence into a dash. I took a snapshot (upload not available on this forum), clearly showing that this is the sequence that is being changed. There is no matching entry for this in the auto-correct entries. It's possible that this is caused by my Trados addon, but I doubt it because the snapshot shows it to be a dash conversion auto correct item. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120954
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    - why so many damn upgrades and downloads, what is all this grap Why is Vista so Unstable, and freezes up ? You know it has gotten to the point that we do not trust Microsoft, and now, you are putting out a new operatind system, after all you have put us through with this hoax, Vista -- I miss the midwest Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120951
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    - Word Help Error Whenever I click on a "Play Demo" button in Word 2007 Help, Notepad pops up along with a Notepad error message: "The file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect." No demo plays. This is a new installation of Word 2007 and I am not yet familiar with it. What is going on? What do I do about it? Tia, Glenn Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120950
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    - Word hangs when unloading or removing Word Add-inn I installed PDF-Converter and after discovering I have the same feature pre-installed from Adobe, I de-installed PDF-Converter. However, in Word 2007, the ribbon tab kept showing the PDF-Converter-buttons, as well as the related "ScanSoftPDF.dot" add-ins (both "COM add-in" and "Word add-in"). When I remove these add-ins from the list (> Word options > Add-ins > Manage:COM add-ins > remove/unload), Word crashes once I quit the Word-options dialog screen. Anyhow (even if I do not try to unload or remove), Word hangs each time I try to exit the program. (And then, as you know, Word gives an error message and restarts. Truly exiting Word means: cancel restart after the error message.) I reinstalled PDF-Converter to remove/unload the same items manually from within Word first and then to de-install PDF-Converter again, but I never come this far. I also re-created the (system)folder structure with a fake ScanSoftPDF.dot, but also this does not work. Help!! Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120940
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    - spell check not working in parts of document the spell check is not working in parts of my document - it appears turned on in the quick access toolbar and the proofing part of Word options. It even claims that Adsafgfafdg is spelled correctly when I spell check it. What gives?? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120931
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    - Instal office 2008 SP1 update(12.1.0)on iMac I have tried installing this update many times, at one point I get this message "SELECT A DESTINATION ( I select MACINTOSH HD 232GB [209GB free) and it reads as follows "You can't install office 2008 SP1 update (12.1.0) on this volume. A version of the software required to install this up date was not found on this volume" I HAVE ALSO TRIED TO INSTALL IT ON THE OTHER CHOICE, MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE WHICH HAS 401 GB FREE, AND GET THE SAME RESULT. How do I get beyond this point and install the up date? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120930
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    - How to avoid '\*MERGEFORMAT' from being added to edit field? When I edit any field already present in a document such as make a simple font change, it adds a â?? \*MERGEFORMAT â?? to the end of the field. Field before edit :- { USERADDRESS } The field after edit ( a font change) :- { USERADDRESS \* MERGEFORMAT } I am using Word 2003 and I presume this gets added automatically by Word whenever I edit a field in the document. Is there a setting that can be made to avoid the addition of â??\*MERGEFORMATâ??? -- Thanks, Sujeeth Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120919
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    - Pictures, clip art etc are not showing in my documents Something is checked in my Word program that does not allow any pictures, clip art, etc to show/appear in my documents. I'm NOT a new user and I can't figure this one out. VERY FRUSTRATED!!! Ver. Word 2003 SP3 Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120905
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    - Cannot edit word documents or access Word Options tab I am experiencing a similiar problem to the one described below. When Word opens I can create a new document and enter text however cannot select the text with the mouse however the select all works from the menu option. Also unable to select any of the tabs in the Word Options and when Word is closed it comes up with the message "Word has stopped working"and then restarts. Word had been working fine until the most recent set of office updates in mid July which caused this problem to occur. The other Office modules are working ok and are activated. I have reinstalled office a number of times and performed the office repair but it has made no difference. Is there another way to verify if Word is activated or access the Word options. Other possible suggestions?? Regards Daniel "Terry Farrell" wrote: > It indicates that either you have a trial version of Office 2007 that has > expired or you have installed Office and failed to activate it. > > Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP > > "jhauser" <jhauser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:6BC90BCB-1C16-42E8-8BB3-9ADC09BEF5ED@microsoft.com... > >I purchased a new computer at the end of May '08 and installed Microsoft > > Office Enterprise. When I open "word" my documents will open but I cannot > > do > > anything with them. It is like they are protected and are not. I cannot > > bold, copy and paste, add to the document. Just print!! I can open a new > > document and start typing and cannot make one change to it. If I wanted > > to > > add something to the first paragraph I cannot! I cannot underline or > > anything. Then when I close out it gives me a message the Microsoft > > Office > > has quit working but I can still work in excell and other documents of > > Microsoft? Any suggestions? > Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120902
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    - TOC wrong when printed I've two Word 2007 documents, each about 120 pages long. In one of them, the Table of Contents looks completely correct when viewed on screen, but then when printed it seems to "get stuck" at about page 80. That is, all of the entries are there for things after page 80, but they all say they're on page 80 instead of the correct page. Again, though, the TOC is completely correct when viewed on the screen. The other document works just fine. Have done the normal F9 stuff to refresh the TOC, but it makes no difference to the way it prints. This document used to be a Word 2003 doc, and I never saw anything like this. Am I running into a bug in Word 2007, or is there some new feature or option that I should be paying attention to? Help, anyone!? Thanks. -- Don H. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120895
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    - Labels Error Hi! I keep getting this message when I try and print labels - how can I fix it and also it wont let me have more then 2 labels on the page and I need 3 ---- help! Here is a screen shot of the error: www.bullyingcanada.ca/Error.jpg Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120894
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    - Word 2003 User receiving error: â??Word failed reading from this file (gives doc. name). Please restore the network connection or replace the floppy disk and retryâ??. Then all the documents shut down that user was working on. Any ideas? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120889
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    - language settings or correct but opens with Japanese highlighted. I recently installed to Office 2003. Had old version of 2000. Now, when opening a Word document, it opens highlighted as Japanese. I checked my computer language settings and it has English US. I have to click on Windows to make it readable. I've checked the settings in Word, and it has english as well. But I can't get it to open in English. Does anyone have a fix for it? -- Gayle Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120886
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    - delete large chunk of repeated text How do I delete a large chunk of repeated paragraphs in Word? I tried the Find and replace feature but was unsuccessful. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120882
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    - "Find" command crashes I am running Word 2007 on XP Pro. (I believe I have Office Service Pack 1 installed.) The Find command will send the CPU to 100% in my big (huge) documents sometimes. Sitting and waiting does not help. Before I figured out that hitting Esc will free the computer again, I would have to reboot. Here's the thing--whether or not the search hangs seems to depend on the word I'm searching for. I've been playing around with it (that almost counts as doing work, right?) and I seem to have learned that if there are no instances or only a few, no problem. If there are many the process crashes. Can this be right? More to the point, since my work sometimes relies on me finding the many instances of frequent words, is there a fix? Thanks in advance. Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120872
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    - not enough memory or disk space to run word??? not enough memory or disk space to run word message pops up when I try to start ms word. I click ok and nothing loads. Looked online and I have no clue how to fix it. Help please? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120870
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    - Word freezes when I try to exit I have been fighting my computer for days on end. Have uninstalled Office 2007 and EndNote, then reinstalled both. My initial problem has been solved (which was that Word would freeze upon opening and give me an error message that "an unknown error has occurred" in EndNote). However, the new issue is that while I can now successfully open and use Word, when I go to exit the program it freezes. I get a box that allows me to either restart the program or search online for a solution and then restart. Either option only restarts. When I then go to exit, it gives me two options: search online for a solution and CLOSE the program or simply close the program. I am at my wit's end. Any suggestions? Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120863
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    - you have exceeded the max. number of pages supported by ms office My director gets this message every time he tries to print 1 document in particular. He printed out many different documents but only gets this error when trying to print one specific document. We had someone else try printing it from their pc and it works fine. I've cleaned up the hard drive of temp files and cache and have rebooted more than once. I've googled it, searched the knowledge base and have found no viable fix for this. PLEASE HELP! Tag: weird symbols Tag: 120862

All of my word documents are suddenly littered with weird symbols. Do I have
a virus?

Re: weird symbols by Terry

Terry
Fri Aug 01 00:20:28 PDT 2008

A little more description would have helped.

Is the text all OK with just the non-printing symbols (spaces, tab,
paragraph marks, etc.) displayed? Press the ShowAll command button on the
toolbar (it looks like a reversed P) or use the keyboard shortcut
Ctrl+Shift+8.

If it is more serious than this, please describe and lets us in on the
version or Word and OS and if they are patched up to date.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"paul_mc" <paul_mc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:79BD5DE3-EDE0-49E4-BEE9-447C108C0FEB@microsoft.com...
> All of my word documents are suddenly littered with weird symbols. Do I
> have
> a virus?

Re: weird symbols by Suzanne

Suzanne
Fri Aug 01 06:10:09 PDT 2008

For starters, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"paul_mc" <paul_mc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:79BD5DE3-EDE0-49E4-BEE9-447C108C0FEB@microsoft.com...
> All of my word documents are suddenly littered with weird symbols. Do I
> have
> a virus?

Re: weird symbols by paulmc

paulmc
Fri Aug 01 11:16:05 PDT 2008

Thanks Terrry, I had no idea of that button. Your info was very helpfull,
thank you.

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

> A little more description would have helped.
>
> Is the text all OK with just the non-printing symbols (spaces, tab,
> paragraph marks, etc.) displayed? Press the ShowAll command button on the
> toolbar (it looks like a reversed P) or use the keyboard shortcut
> Ctrl+Shift+8.
>
> If it is more serious than this, please describe and lets us in on the
> version or Word and OS and if they are patched up to date.
>
> --
> Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
>
> "paul_mc" <paul_mc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:79BD5DE3-EDE0-49E4-BEE9-447C108C0FEB@microsoft.com...
> > All of my word documents are suddenly littered with weird symbols. Do I
> > have
> > a virus?
>
>