Format changes when saving

[Judi]

When I save a document in Word 2003 the format changes. The most recent
document contains a table and it changes the last row to a series of Ys with
... over the top of them and adds a page. I am an experienced Word user, but
recently upgraded to Office 2003 Small Business Edition from Office 97
Professional. I've tired reloading the software, but no change. Can someone
help with this? Thanks.

 

[Klaus Linke]

When I save a document in Word 2003 the format changes. The most recent
document contains a table and it changes the last row to a series of Ys with
.. over the top of them and adds a page. I am an experienced Word user, but
recently upgraded to Office 2003 Small Business Edition from Office 97
Professional. I've tired reloading the software, but no change. Can someone
help with this? Thanks.

Hi Judi,

The ÿ are probably ASCII zeros, and they often appear when there's some
corruption in the document (which doesn't happen that often).
Likely the corruption is in the table. You could try to convert the table to
text (Table > Convert > Table to text), and then back to a table.
If that doesn't fix the problem, this article might help:
http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/CorruptDoc.htm

Greetings,
Klaus

 

[TF]

Or maybe opening the document using the Open and Repair command.



: "Judi" wrote:
: > When I save a document in Word 2003 the format changes. The most recent
: > document contains a table and it changes the last row to a series of Ys
with
: > .. over the top of them and adds a page. I am an experienced Word user,
but
: > recently upgraded to Office 2003 Small Business Edition from Office 97
: > Professional. I've tired reloading the software, but no change. Can
someone
: > help with this? Thanks.
:
:
: Hi Judi,
:
: The ÿ are probably ASCII zeros, and they often appear when there's some
: corruption in the document (which doesn't happen that often).
: Likely the corruption is in the table. You could try to convert the table
to
: text (Table > Convert > Table to text), and then back to a table.
: If that doesn't fix the problem, this article might help:
: http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/CorruptDoc.htm
:
: Greetings,
: Klaus
:
:

 

[Klaus Linke]

Or maybe opening the document using the Open and Repair command.

Hi Terry,

I haven't had much opportunity testing that option in Word2003 yet...
Does it really try to repair? Or does it only recover the pure text, removing
all formatting, as in previous versions?

Greetings,
Klaus

 

[TF]

Klaus

No it really does a Repair. It isn't perfect (like it won't unscramble a
totally corrupt document) but it works well with just minor corruptions such
as numbered headings or a table corruption. The Recover Text option is still
there for those stubborn documents that really are corrupt beyond opening as
a Word document.

Terry

: "TF" <terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom> wrote:
: > Or maybe opening the document using the Open and Repair command.
:
:
: Hi Terry,
:
: I haven't had much opportunity testing that option in Word2003 yet...
: Does it really try to repair? Or does it only recover the pure text,
removing
: all formatting, as in previous versions?
:
: Greetings,
: Klaus
:
:

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Terry,

Good to hear!

Still keep my fingers crossed that I don't need to test that myself anytime
soon...

Regards,
Klaus