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pmartz
Hi all -- I'm using Word 2003 and have ran into a problem with one of
my documents.
The doc uses fields primarily as hyperlinks within the document itself
(insert->reference->cross reference). I recently noticed a stray right
curly brace in my text immediately following the last reference field.
However, this is no ordinary right curly brace that I could simply
delete -- when I hit the delete key, Word selects all the text between
my first and last references. If I hit delete a second time it deletes
all the selected text. Apparently, Word believes this right curly
brace is somehow part of a field that spans the majority of my
document.
If I show all field codes, it still just looks like a right curly
brace -- no help there. If I load the Word doc in something like
Notepad and delete the oddball byte that seems to correspond to that
field, this results in a currupt doc that Word won't/can't open
(alright, no surprise there).
If I try to select the right curly brace and convert the fields to
text, again this selects all the text between my first reference and
the right curly brace, and converts all references to text. So this is
not a solution.
In short, I don't know what I could've done that would've created
this, and unfortunately I can't seem to get rid of it. It does show up
when I print the doc, which makes it unacceptable.
Does anybody have any ideas how I might get rid of this?
Thanks.
-Paul
my documents.
The doc uses fields primarily as hyperlinks within the document itself
(insert->reference->cross reference). I recently noticed a stray right
curly brace in my text immediately following the last reference field.
However, this is no ordinary right curly brace that I could simply
delete -- when I hit the delete key, Word selects all the text between
my first and last references. If I hit delete a second time it deletes
all the selected text. Apparently, Word believes this right curly
brace is somehow part of a field that spans the majority of my
document.
If I show all field codes, it still just looks like a right curly
brace -- no help there. If I load the Word doc in something like
Notepad and delete the oddball byte that seems to correspond to that
field, this results in a currupt doc that Word won't/can't open
(alright, no surprise there).
If I try to select the right curly brace and convert the fields to
text, again this selects all the text between my first reference and
the right curly brace, and converts all references to text. So this is
not a solution.
In short, I don't know what I could've done that would've created
this, and unfortunately I can't seem to get rid of it. It does show up
when I print the doc, which makes it unacceptable.
Does anybody have any ideas how I might get rid of this?
Thanks.
-Paul