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Jon
Hello I was editing a word 2007 doc file and went to press Ctrl+A, then
F9 to update the TOC. All of the Text was then highlighted, but not the
normal blue highlight. Rather it was a grayed out highlight on all the text
like you would normally see when you select the TOC with your mouse. It
wouldn't go away so I closed the file and reopened it, but when I did all the
text was gone except for the header.
Now when the file is first opened the status bar says there are about
25,000 words, but word count returns 0. And there is only 1 page instead of
many pages. Also the size of the file is the correct size for the length of
file. So it seems that the information is still in there. If I open the
file with a Text/Hex editor it is completely unreadable. Normally the Word
files have at least some readable text. I did save a copy of the corrupted
file and I have a copy of the original file before the corruption. I also
looked at the revision/tracking section but nothing in there helped.
I have never had any issues like this before or since. What would have
caused this? And is there a way to fix the issue?
Thanks,
Jon
F9 to update the TOC. All of the Text was then highlighted, but not the
normal blue highlight. Rather it was a grayed out highlight on all the text
like you would normally see when you select the TOC with your mouse. It
wouldn't go away so I closed the file and reopened it, but when I did all the
text was gone except for the header.
Now when the file is first opened the status bar says there are about
25,000 words, but word count returns 0. And there is only 1 page instead of
many pages. Also the size of the file is the correct size for the length of
file. So it seems that the information is still in there. If I open the
file with a Text/Hex editor it is completely unreadable. Normally the Word
files have at least some readable text. I did save a copy of the corrupted
file and I have a copy of the original file before the corruption. I also
looked at the revision/tracking section but nothing in there helped.
I have never had any issues like this before or since. What would have
caused this? And is there a way to fix the issue?
Thanks,
Jon