"Paginate Forever" is a sign of either document or style corruption.
In your case, I am going to go with "Document Corruption" and suggest a
"Maggie":
1) Create a new blank document
2) Carefully select all of the text in the bad document EXCEPT the last
paragraph mark
3) Copy it.
4) Paste in the new document.
5) Save under a new file name and close all, then re-open.
This technique for de-corrupting is known as "Doing a 'Maggie'", after
Margaret Secara from the Word PC-L mailing list who first publicised the
technique.
Sadly, this make a very accurate copy of the original, so accurate that it
may not remove the problem.
In which case, we will have to do a "Save as Web Page". There is a
possibility that Word will crash when you do this, if the corruption is so
bad it can't read the document.
1. Open the document
2. File>Save As... And choose Web Page
3. In the bottom of the dialog, make CERTAIN ³Save entire file² is checked.
4. Save the file and close the document
5. Quit Word and re-start it
6. Open the Web Page version of the file
7. File>Save as and this time choose ³Document²
8. Give the file a different name, so you have the old one to go back to.
9. Check the file for missing bits.
If you choose ³Save Display information only² you strip out the code in the
file that enables Word to re-create a document from it later. By forcing
Word to re-express the file in a different format, you cause it to discard
any code it cannot understand. That fixes the problem, but it can lead to
missing text.
This problem may also mangle your pictures. If they go fuzzy, you will need
to re-insert them. Try not to copy them from the original document, because
chances are high that the cause of the problem is a broken picture
The problem can also be caused by a style suddenly acquiring a "Page Break
Before" property it is not meant to have. But in that case, you would get
"hundreds" of pages, not "thousands".
If this doesn't fix it, come back and we'll get serious with it
Hope this helps
Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
Processor: Power PC
I am preparing an MS Word text (research report including Schemes and
Figures). Problem: when I am trying to insert the additional text into the
already saved main text body, anytime Word starts unnecessary repagination,
and when I try to stop it, then the text appears in a wrong format with too
many pages (several thousands instead of the real 30 pages).
How can I avoid/stop such damaging repagination? What could be the reason of
it?
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