Word Docs Blank But Not Blank - Visible In Pages & Preview

[Woody]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have some Word docs ( quite a few ) that were working and now when they open, they are blank. Files sizes indicate that the data is still there. I can use the space bar to highlight and preview In Finder and the data is there. Additionally, if I open the document with Pages, it is fine and intact.

Any ideas what might be going one here?

Many thanks

 

[John McGhie]

Check that no silly person has set the font colour to "white" just to annoy
you!

Or that there is no large white square sitting on top of the document.

Go into Draft View and see if the text shows up there: if it does, then the
problem is that it's positioned "off the page".

Cheers

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have some Word docs ( quite a few ) that were working and now when they
open, they are blank. Files sizes indicate that the data is still there. I can
use the space bar to highlight and preview In Finder and the data is there.
Additionally, if I open the document with Pages, it is fine and intact.

Any ideas what might be going one here?

Many thanks

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[CyberTaz]

What *is* displayed in the documents when you open them? Do you see a single
¶ or anything? If not the text could be formatted as Hidden. Turn on the
Non-Printing Characters & see if the text shows up.

 

[Woody]

Thank you everyone for your replies. I assume I had some sort of weird formatting issue.

I deleted the preference plist files for Word and everything came back.

Thanks

 

[Clive Huggan]

Go into Draft View ...

(In Word 2004, that's Normal view.)

CH
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