Weird Word97 problem

D

dave

I have got a strange problem on a Win98SE box running
Word97. Whenever I open a word doc inside of word by
navigating out to a directory the formatting is all hosed
up. But if I doubleclick on the very same file while
browsing in explorer it opens fine.

I have deleted the normal.dot file and cleared
C:\Windows\temp but to no avail.

What else do I need to check?

Thanks,

Dave
 
L

Lauri McBeath-Davies

Make sure your files of type is NOT set to recover text, in the open file
dialog box.
 
C

Cherry Qian

Hi Dave,

Thank you for the posting. As you indicated, whenever you open a word doc
inside of Word by navigating out to a directory the formatting is all hosed
up. But if you doubleclick on the very same file while browsing in explorer
it opens fine.

This behavior occurs when the Files Of Type setting (on the File menu,
click Open) is "Recover Text from Any File," so that when you open your
document, only the text is recovered, not any of its formatting.

To prevent only text from being recovered when you open your files and to
open your documents in the format of Word documents, follow these steps:

1. On the File menu, click Open.

2. In the Files Of Type list, click Word Documents, or click All Files.


The "Recover Text from Any File" setting will remain until you change it
back to either Word Documents or to All Files.

For additional information on this behavior, please see the following
article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

156573 WD97: How to Recover Text from Any File
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=156573

Hope the above information and suggestion helps and answers your question.
If anything is unclear, please let me know.


Sincerely,

Cherry Qian
MCSE2000, MCSA2000, MCDBA2000
Microsoft Partner Online Support


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D

Dave

Thanks Lauri that was it.

Dave
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Make sure your files of type is NOT set to recover text, in the open file
dialog box.

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