Prior document

[jennifred2]

I think I've done something really stupid. I was trying to update
cross-references in my footnotes, and I found a post here that correctly told
me to select all (Ctrl A) and then to hit F9. However, I didn't realize at
first that I should be doing that to the footnotes, and not my main text.
So, I pushed Ctrl A while I was in the main body of the text and then hit F9,
or possibly Ctrl F9. I'm not sure exactly which combination I used, but the
entire body of my text ended up being highlighted in gray and I couldn't make
it go away. So, I figured that I would just close my document and open it
again. But when I opened my document again, all that was left were my
footnotes! Now my document is 9 pages of footnotes with no text in the body.
I've tried using information from posts about recovering prior versions of
documents, but nothing seems to be working. Any ideas? I've lost a full
day's worth of writing!

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you pressed CTRL+F9 with the document selected, the text would have been
surrounded by field brackets CTRL+Z at the time would have undone this, but
now you have saved the document you need a different plan.

Press ALT+F9 to display the content of the 'field'. Select everything
inside the field brackets {}at the start and end of your text, but not the
brackets themselves.

Press CTRL+X to cut the text to the clipboard.

Select and delete the brackets.

Press CTRL+V to paste back the clipboard content.


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[jennifred2]

Thank you!! I was able to recover my document, and you've likely saved my
chances of publishing it because I'm at the end of my deadline for getting it
turned in to my editor!

 

[grammatim]

Similarly, if there were cross references in your main text, you would
have selected the whole thing and pressed F9 to update them all at
once, so the only mistake was to press Ctrl-F9.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You are welcome

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