OK. I think the one thing it "can't" be is an incompatibility between the
file versions on the PC and the Mac.
The files are not only compatible, they are *exactly the same*, bit-for-bit.
I guess it is possible that the PC file is a Word 2007 .docx. But in that
case, I would expect it not to open at all in an OS 9 version of Word.
I think it is more likely that the "carriage returns" are just that,
carriage returns, and not the "paragraph marks" that Word is expecting.
Try finding the "line break" character ^l and see if the Search finds that.
Text pasted from the internet frequently pastes as one long single paragraph
formatted with line breaks (carriage returns) and not the 0D0A (carriage
return + line feed) that Word is expecting.
The strange letters look like a bit of fractured RTF, which is why I am
suspecting that the document might be corrupt.
You could try these two procedures to see if they fix it:
Save as Web Page
1. Open the document
2. File>Save As... And choose Web Page
3. In the bottom of the dialog, make CERTAIN ³Save entire file² is checked.
4. Save the file and close the document
5. Quit Word and re-start it
6. Open the Web Page version of the file
7. File>Save as and this time choose ³Document²
8. Give the file a different name, so you have the old one to go back to.
9. Check the file for missing bits.
If you choose ³Save Display information only² you strip out the code in the
file that enables Word to re-create a document from it later. By forcing
Word to re-express the file in a different format, you cause it to discard
any code it cannot understand. That fixes the problem, but it can lead to
missing text.
The Maggie:
1. Create a new blank document
2. Carefully select all of the text in the bad document EXCEPT the last
paragraph mark
3. Copy it.
4. Paste in the new document.
5. Save under a new file name and close all, then re-open.
This technique for de-corrupting is known as "Doing a 'Maggie'", after
Margaret Secara from the Word PC-L mailing list who first publicised the
technique.
Hope this helps
To be more clear, with more details :
- on the PC, I was copying Inet pages from IE into a Word file and
separating them with page breaks. Don't presently know the Word
version.
- I copied the file via Email to Mac, OS 9.
- in Word 2001, the file looked ok. I printed the file, but the page
breaks were not printed; the original Inet pages followed each other
with no page breaks between them
- I closed the file and reopened it and the page breaks were gone.
- I tried to replace the missing page breaks by trying to replace 2
carriage returns (^p ^p ), which now separate the Inet pages, with a
page break (^m) . I paste 2 carriage returns in the find function and
it can find 2 carriage returns. But in the replace function, the find
button finds 3 carriage returns instead.
- even worse, if I do a replace for the found 3 carriage returns, with
a page break, Word inserts a picture with the letters /wEWBAK19Or9C
at the found location, instead of a page break. Is this an error code
for some (undefined) state Word cannot handle ?
- if I do the same find and replace 2 carriage returns with a page
break for a Word file made on the Mac, it works ok.
Your answer of a corrupt file seems possible. I would guess the
Email is the corrupting source. I noticed recently our server started
to corrupt Quick Time movie files (.mov ) sent from Mac to PC.
Is incompatability between PC and Mac Word files also possible ?
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