Notebook view won't display. Please help. Urgent !!!

[Joseph Chamberlain, D.D.S.]

Dear Members:


Several documents I have created used Word's Notebook view seem to have lost
the ability to viewed as notebooks with all their section tabs.

The documents were created and individual sections were created where text
was placed according to the subject. The subject was used as the label on
the tags that run across the right vertical margin of the notebook.

I am now opening the document and it displays in layout view by default
(before it was opening in notebook view by default). After I click on
notebook view Word asks me if I want to create a new notebook document or if
I wish to convert the existing document to notebook view.

What is happening here ? I have tried both approaches (converting to
notebook and not converting) and both produce the same result - the notebook
view opens but the tabs and sections are lost. It displays a single tab with
the label 1 on it.

This is urgent as I have several very important documents that I must finish
this weekend and have not idea as to what Microsoft Office has done to all
the work I have created in these documents.

Any ideas on how to solve the problem ?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Joseph Chamberlain

 

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

Hi Joseph:

You're a dentist, so we're not going to tell you!!

Notebook "View" is a very strange beastie that is quite unstable. It
depends utterly on the the styles Note Level 1 through Note Level 9 and
"Next Page" section breaks.

If you alter the formatting of the styles, or apply different styles, a
Notebook document is broken. From that time on, we have not found a
reliable way of fixing them.

What I would recommend is that you change to Page Layout View or Normal
View, copy the text, create a new document in Normal View or Page Layout
view, paste the text in, and save as a new file name.

I would then not try to go back into Notebook View.

The problem you have is that in Notebook View, the formatting commands you
need to repair the beastie are disabled by the view, and they won't work if
you are in a different view.

*I* would give up on it and work in ordinary Word documents.

Hope this helps

Dear Members:


Several documents I have created used Word's Notebook view seem to have lost
the ability to viewed as notebooks with all their section tabs.

The documents were created and individual sections were created where text
was placed according to the subject. The subject was used as the label on
the tags that run across the right vertical margin of the notebook.

I am now opening the document and it displays in layout view by default
(before it was opening in notebook view by default). After I click on
notebook view Word asks me if I want to create a new notebook document or if
I wish to convert the existing document to notebook view.

What is happening here ? I have tried both approaches (converting to
notebook and not converting) and both produce the same result - the notebook
view opens but the tabs and sections are lost. It displays a single tab with
the label 1 on it.

This is urgent as I have several very important documents that I must finish
this weekend and have not idea as to what Microsoft Office has done to all
the work I have created in these documents.

Any ideas on how to solve the problem ?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Joseph Chamberlain

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