Disabling notebook view?

[liantics]

We have a publishing process that involves importing content from a
Word doc into Quark. (MS Word 11.1 on MacOS X)

Unfortunately, someone accidentally switched briefly to notebook layout
view, and now the import will no longer work. Switching back to normal
view and saving doesn't fix the problem, it automatically switches
itself back to the notebook view. Copying all the text into a new Word
doc similarly doesn't fix it. So apparently there's some tag somewhere
in the document that marks it permanently as a notebook document.

Creating a new file and hand-entering and formatting all the text would
be a HUGE amount of work, which we'd rather avoid. Given our short
production deadlines, this is a critical issue for us.

Does anyone have any info on permanently undoing the notebook
conversion or disabling the notebook layout altogether?

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Try testing the Normal template:
<http://word.mvps.org/Mac/MacWordNormal.html>

If that doesn't work, try testing the prefs:
<http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DamagedPrefs.html>

I have no idea if it's possible to disable Notebook view, but I think the
above procedure(s) will fix the problem. Post back if not.

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Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html>

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

It's not a "tag", Word documents do not employ "tags" (which is why you
can't find it ...)

It's a "Property" and it is stored in a "Section Break", which is a property
store than contains several hundred pieces of information about the
document.

The master property store for the document is the terminating section break,
which is below the last paragraph mark in the document and never displayed.

To get rid of what's in there, carefully copy all of the text down to, but
not including, the last paragraph marker. Paste this into a new blank
document.

You will lose some of your overall document formatting, such as margins and
some style definitions.

Hope this helps

We have a publishing process that involves importing content from a
Word doc into Quark. (MS Word 11.1 on MacOS X)

Unfortunately, someone accidentally switched briefly to notebook layout
view, and now the import will no longer work. Switching back to normal
view and saving doesn't fix the problem, it automatically switches
itself back to the notebook view. Copying all the text into a new Word
doc similarly doesn't fix it. So apparently there's some tag somewhere
in the document that marks it permanently as a notebook document.

Creating a new file and hand-entering and formatting all the text would
be a HUGE amount of work, which we'd rather avoid. Given our short
production deadlines, this is a critical issue for us.

Does anyone have any info on permanently undoing the notebook
conversion or disabling the notebook layout altogether?

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Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[liantics]

Thanks for this! We were able to meet deadline.

I imagine this may also help with occasional other weirdnesses we see.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Yep. It's called "Doing a Maggie" in the trade, after Maggie Cicero, the
lady who first publicised the technique

It fixes nearly everything that can go wrong with the Word .doc format, by
replacing the master property store with a default one. You lose a little
formatting, but usually nothing significant.

You *can* also get corrupted paragraphs, particularly around tables. A
Maggie won't fix those...

Cheers

Thanks for this! We were able to meet deadline.

I imagine this may also help with occasional other weirdnesses we see.

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410