26+ page document cut off at page 21

[Matt]

I have a document that contains the notes for a class that I am taking this
quarter in college that I know is atleast 26 pages and has a bunch of Visio
drawings in it, yet when I try to open it in Word 2003 on my computer at
home, it gets to page 21 and stops there.

System specs:

Processor: P3/733
OS: Windows XP SP2
Office version: 2003 SP2
RAM: 384MB SDRAM
HDD: Maxtor, 60GB

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Any chance this document is on a floppy disk?
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[Matt]

This document is stored on the hard drive and on a USB drive and the problem
happens with both copies.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

USB Drive as in external hard drive or USB drive as in flash drive?
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[Matt]

256MB USB flash drive made by PNY (their Attache model)

 

[Charles Kenyon]

If you want to be able to use your documents, when working within Word, act
as if your floppy drive does not exist! (This applies to CDRW/CDR and flash
drives as well.)
Don't use Word to:
Open a document on a floppy
Print a document on a floppy
Edit a document on a floppy
Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy)

Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives!

Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries, schools) this is a
tough prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new
formatted disk each time you save and don't do any editing.
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[Matt]

This is what I routinely do. This document has been stored, edited, printed,
etc. on the server at school. I copy it to the flash drive, bring it home,
copy it to the hard drive. I am still having trouble.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

It sounds as if you have a corrupted document anyway. You never opened it
directly from the flash drive or saved it there directly?
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/document_corruption.htm
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[Matt]

The original document opened ok on all the computers at school, the problem
seems to be limited to my comptuer here at home. Any further suggestions?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

That it works OK on the computers at school does not indicate that it is or
is not corrupt. Word 2003 seems to be much more sensitive at detecting
problems with documents than are earlier versions. Try, at school, saving it
as and .rtf file and opening it in Word at home. Does this help?
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