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I feel your pain. I am right there with you using Word 2007 on Vista.
Ok, have you tried the tried and sometimes true method of copying
EVERYTHING in the corrupt file EXCEPT for the LAST paragraph marker and
pasting into a new document? You can then select the paragraph marker
for each style and right-click to add back to your style dictionary.
Also, is auto-save off in your Word options? I promise I won't lecture
as to why auto-save is a BAD thing (well, Word in itself is a BAD thing,
but that goes without saying), but after you copy your Word file, make
sure that in the new file, that auto-save is turned off. Then, save your
new file with a different name, delete the old corrupted file, and then
resave the new file with the name of the deleted file.
HTH (well, this and a good stiff margarita with a double dose of
tequila)
TVB
Tammy Van Boening
Curriculum Developer
Charter University
Charter Communications, Inc.
6399 S Fiddler's Green Circle
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Office: 303.323.6007
Cell: 303-909-5752
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Hi folks,
MS Word 2003 got the last laugh this time. I think the file is corrupt,
but getting an insufficient memory error. I know it's not really
a memory problem, but the only alternative I can find is that it has
something to do with my anti-virus. Right now, I'm running AVG 8 Free
and that's never caused problems before. I suspect the culprit is a
graphic that got hungry and started eating my file.
At this point, I'm stuck with either a) going back to the version four
days before or b) recovering text only and rebuilding the styles,
links, references, index, ToC, and so forth.
Perhaps one of you has a better idea on how to repair this doc without
wasting another week repeating what I've already done to the doc?
And please, no lectures about backups or Word or whatever. I'm in no
position to fix any of that at this point.
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