MS Word 2000 Document won't open

[Kromeyone]

I am making a Manual for my company. I tracked changes, but I did not know I
was supposed to "accept" the changes. Now I have a problem.
I made so many changes to my Word document that now it will not open.
Can anyone tell me how to accept or delete the changes, so I can save my
document? This document represents months of work, and I thought I was
finally done with this project and ready to go to press.

 

[Beth Melton]

What is the message you encounter when you try to open the document?

You may be able to create a new document, go to Insert/File and insert
the contents of the document containing tracked changes.

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[Kromeyone]

The document will not open at all. Word 200 is locked up, just spinning it's
wheels. Other Word documents open and are fine.
The Error Message I encountered last night said something about, 'You have
too many tracked changes, Save your document.' I hit save, but I haven't been
able to open this document since then.
Can you help me salvage this document?
After I have worked on a document so long, how do I accept tracked changes?

 

[Kromeyone]

No error message, the document will not open. Word just sits and spins.
Last night the error message was something like, 'Your document has too many
Tracked changes. Save your document.' I saved it, by hitting file-save. But
since then my document will not even open. Is there any way to recover this
document?
When I have so many tracked changes, how do I get rid of of stop them?

 

[Beth Melton]

I'm not sure what you can do. Do you know anyone who has Word 2002 or
Word 2003?

Both of these versions have an "Open and Repair" feature found under
the Open dialog box under the Open drop down.

Otherwise here area a few additional things you can try:

- If the document contains graphics then in Word go to
Tools/Options/View and turn in "Picture Placeholders" and "Draft
Font".
- If the document contains links then on the General tab make sure
"Update automatic links at Open" is turned off.

Try using a document link to retrieve the corrupt document:
- Create a new document
- Copy some text from another document
- In the new document use Edit/Paste Special and select "Paste Link"
- Go to Edit/Links and change the source of the link to the document
you can not open

If this works then return to Edit/Links and break the link to the
source document.

For additional troubleshooting steps/methods take a look at this
article:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

You also try a recovery utility such as those from
http://www.officerecovery.com/, however they aren't free downloads.
:-(

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[Kromeyone]

Thanks.

I'm not sure what you can do. Do you know anyone who has Word 2002 or
Word 2003?

Both of these versions have an "Open and Repair" feature found under
the Open dialog box under the Open drop down.

Otherwise here area a few additional things you can try:

- If the document contains graphics then in Word go to
Tools/Options/View and turn in "Picture Placeholders" and "Draft
Font".
- If the document contains links then on the General tab make sure
"Update automatic links at Open" is turned off.

Try using a document link to retrieve the corrupt document:
- Create a new document
- Copy some text from another document
- In the new document use Edit/Paste Special and select "Paste Link"
- Go to Edit/Links and change the source of the link to the document
you can not open

If this works then return to Edit/Links and break the link to the
source document.

For additional troubleshooting steps/methods take a look at this
article:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

You also try a recovery utility such as those from
http://www.officerecovery.com/, however they aren't free downloads.
:-(

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

 

[Kromeyone]

Thanks,

I'm not sure what you can do. Do you know anyone who has Word 2002 or
Word 2003?

Both of these versions have an "Open and Repair" feature found under
the Open dialog box under the Open drop down.

Otherwise here area a few additional things you can try:

- If the document contains graphics then in Word go to
Tools/Options/View and turn in "Picture Placeholders" and "Draft
Font".
- If the document contains links then on the General tab make sure
"Update automatic links at Open" is turned off.

Try using a document link to retrieve the corrupt document:
- Create a new document
- Copy some text from another document
- In the new document use Edit/Paste Special and select "Paste Link"
- Go to Edit/Links and change the source of the link to the document
you can not open

If this works then return to Edit/Links and break the link to the
source document.

For additional troubleshooting steps/methods take a look at this
article:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

You also try a recovery utility such as those from
http://www.officerecovery.com/, however they aren't free downloads.
:-(

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Microsoft Office MVP

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TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

 

[Kromeyone]

Thanks,
I tried Fix 1: Turned on Picture Placeholders and Draft Font, and
turned off Update automatic lonks at open. Result: Error message: "There is
not enough memory or disk space to complete the operation". I got a two page
document, that was not really open. On task Master it said this document was
not responding.
I tried fix 2: Creat neew document. Under Edit/Paste Special-Past Link
not available. Also Edit/Links is not available. Unable to complete. Result:
Error: Office Asst could not be opened. Please Repair the Assistant by
running Office 2000 setup and selecting "Repair Office 2000".
Can you help me with the memory?

 

[Beth Melton]

It could be your Office installation is damaged. You might try
repairing the installation as indicated by the error message by
opening your Control Panel and in Add/Remove Programs find the Office
installation and use the Repair option.

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[Kromeyone]

I bought the Word Recovery 3.0 program and this saved my document. After I
recovered it, I just have to clean it up and reformat it. Thanks.

I have a second document. When I open it I get this error code: "A table in
this document has become corrupted. To recover the contents of the table;
select the table and choose Convert Table To Text from the Table menu."
Q= How do I know which of the hundred tables this refers to?

 

[Beth Melton]

I'm glad to hear you were able to recover your documents. Sorry to
hear you had to pay for it. :-(

The only thing I can think of for your current document is to start
narrowing the problem down. Copy/paste half of the document it into a
new document. Save it and open it and see if you encounter the same
message. If so then repeat the same steps until you are able to
pinpoint the corrupt table(s). Once you've found them then correct
them in your main document.

You could also try saving the document as HTML, open it and then save
it as a Word document again.

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