You are possibly correct that you may have unintentionally toggled on Track
Changes as it would certainly explain your symptoms. I'm fairly sure that
Ctrl+Shft+E will toggle on Track Changes.
Unfortunately Open & Repair wasn't introduced until Word XP (it is a very
powerful tool). But you are going about the correct way to find your
corruption by gradually segregating the document parts until you find it.
Next time, instead of copy/paste, open a new blank and use Insert, File:
that sometimes gets you into a corrupt document.
Terry
: Hi TF
: It's Word 2000 and it doesn't seem to have the Open & Repair a file option
: unfortunately, although it does have a Repair section under Help but I
think
: that's for the whole programme. Thanks, anyway. I've split the document
up
: into smaller chunks and isolated the offending bit (unfortunately still
quite
: a large "bit" so far - might have to split that into even smaller files).
: I'm thinking it might have something to do with a strange event last week
: whilst adding to the document, the font suddenly changed to red and I
: couldn't get it back to black no matter what I did. I eventually copied
and
: pasted the whole content into a new document which got rid of the "red
font"
: problem. I thought I'd hit a "fast key" on the keyboard but on checking
that
: out I've found no fast key(s) are allocated to change font colour. I'm
now
: wondering if I somehow activated "Track changes" which changes the font
: colour and puts a line in the margin (exactly what happened). Again, I
don't
: know how a keyboard can activate that.
: Any further thoughts gratefully received.
: EV (the wife)
:
: "TF" wrote:
:
: > More likely this is a corrupt document. Presuming you have a recent
version
: > of Word (you didn't give us that vital piece of information), use the
Open
: > and Repair option. (Open and Repair is one of the choices under the
little
: > arrow key to the right of the OPEN button in the File, Open dialog.)
: >
: > --
: > Terry Farrell - Word MVP
:
: >
: > : > : My wifes PC shows that the CPU usage is 100% when
: > : she opens a certain document. I have checked it with
: > : avg and found nothing also adware finds nothing. As
: > : this heats up the CPU I am very concerned that it
: > : will burn up!! The Word document has 35 pages, mostly of text with a
few
: > : copied & pasted Excel columns of info too. I'm just thinking it might
be
: > : happening with all new Word docs., it certainly doesn't happen with
any
: > old
: > : ones. Could that new document have something in it that is causing my
: > : computer to access the Internet when it is open, perhaps a Trojan
Horse?
: > : Kind regards
: > : EV
: > :
: >
: >
: >
