Recovering a custom Word label format

[Bob Engelhardt]

A while ago I created, with a lot of trial and error, a custom label
format in Word. Since then I had a system problem and I had to restore
the whole C drive from an earlier save (Ghost). So I lost the custom
label format.

However, I have a Ghost copy of the drive/partition with the custom
format on it. (I just can't boot from it.) Is there some way to
recover the label format from this other partition? I tried just
copying windows\application_data\microsoft\office\word.pip from the
saved partition to the current one, but that didn't work.

Or, is there a way to run Word from this saved partition, so I could
manually copy the label format?

Thanks,
Bob

 

[Chris Schatte]

Bob Engelhardt,
If you do not have a backup of the original file apart from the ghost partition you will not be able to open and edit your file. As you discovered you cannot boot from a ghost partition to recover files / documents...
You will need to save your files and documents in a read / write format to either a separate partition file / drive document file / recoverable media file...
Did you research the mfg of your ghost software for your question on file recovery?

Chris Schatte

 

[Bob Engelhardt]

If you do not have a backup of the original file apart from the ghost partition you >will not be able to open and edit your file. As you discovered you cannot boot from a >ghost partition to recover files / documents...
You will need to save your files and documents in a read / write format to either a >separate partition file / drive document file / recoverable media file...
Did you research the mfg of your ghost software for your question on file recovery?

I can access all the files alright - they're in the same format as they
were. GHOST just makes a separate copy of the whole partition. The
problem is that it's not a .doc /.dot that I'm trying to recover - it's
a label format created in the "Options" box of "Tools"/"Envelopes and
Labels". The format is saved by Word, somewhere. I thought it was in
word.pip, but copying that didn't work (I could copy it, but I didn't
get the format).

Although I can't boot from the GHOST'ed partition, I can execute
programs that are there. But I don't know if they would use the
"environment" in that parttion, or in the boot partition. And I don't
quite want to just try it.

Bob

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Bob,

The custom label formats are saved in the registry.
In Word 2003, for example you could export the key in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Custom Labels

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I can access all the files alright - they're in the same format as they
were. GHOST just makes a separate copy of the whole partition. The
problem is that it's not a .doc /.dot that I'm trying to recover - it's
a label format created in the "Options" box of "Tools"/"Envelopes and
Labels". The format is saved by Word, somewhere. I thought it was in
word.pip, but copying that didn't work (I could copy it, but I didn't
get the format).

Although I can't boot from the GHOST'ed partition, I can execute
programs that are there. But I don't know if they would use the
"environment" in that parttion, or in the boot partition. And I don't
quite want to just try it.

Bob>>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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