atw: Re: Footnotes in word
- From: Suzy <SuzyDavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:14:23 -0500 (CDT)
Hi Kate
You no doubt know what I'm about to write from your research, but
just incase...
When corruptions occur in Word they first get stored in the last
paragraph mark - when that becomes 'full' of data, the overflow
goes into tables, graphics, and paragrah marks, and lastly styles
and text.
Unless you copied paragraphs over as unformatted text, then you
would have been copying the corruption over.
When I do this kind of rebuild (we call it an Advanced Maggie on
the Word PC news group) - I copy the text over as unformatted
text, I recreate all manual page breaks and section breaks, and
rebuild all tables, and will recreate the graphics using Snagit -
so they come in clean.
I have never found this not to work - time consuming yes, but it
does work, and I have rebuilt quite a few in this way - but I have
never experienced this footnote problem.
The other way, besides the save as HTML method you mention, is to
convert to RTF and back. But I haven't used this method.
And as you previously mentioned it is imperative that your new
document build must be based on a clean template ( ie a
regenerated Normal).
regards
Suzy
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Hi Suzy,
Unfortunately, we tried copying the all except the paragraph mark
and a myriad of other things (including copying each paragraph in
separately and seeing if the document corrupted). Nothing
worked.
I have seen posts on the Internet referring to this problem but
have not found any solutions. The only thing we have been able to
do is convert the corrupted document to HTML (and hope that we
upgrade to the next version of Word before the next corruption.)
Kate.
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