atw: Re: MS Word 2010 and change-tracking
- From: "janine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <janine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 09:17:54 +0000
Ian,
Now that's what I do for large corrupt documents - just about where it fails
save the document in two portions before and after the fail area. Usually works
you lose about 1 page. Haven't done that for a long while (years).
Word tends not to corrupt that much these days in my experience.
Janine
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Gabriel
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 6:07 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: MS Word 2010 and change-tracking
Hi Geoffrey,
I see that the problem is solved, but I throw in my 2 cents worth (plus GST).
A variation on Suzy's cut and paste method that I use is a version of the
"half-interval search".
Copy the first half of the document into another file and save it, then copy
the second half into another file and save that. If the corruption is still
evident in one of the new files, cut that one into two pieces and so on. If you
have large documents, this can be a quick way to focus in on the corrupted bit.
Sadly Word files still get corrupted despite being XML-based instead of RTF.
That reminds me of another solution that I have used successfully. Save the
file to RTF, then back to a binary Word document. If there were corrupted
characters, they should be purged. If the problem is the perennial one of
corrupted section breaks, then the piecemeal rebuild is the only way back to
sanity.
Cheers,
Ian Gabriel
----- Original Message -----
From: Janine Crutch<mailto:janine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 5:43 PM
Subject: atw: Re: MS Word 2010 and change-tracking
Hi Geoffrey
Why not do an "Open and Repair" from dropdown "Open" Open and Repair. Ctrl O
(File Open) in 2010.
Janine
From:
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Marnell
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 1:15 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: atw: MS Word 2010 and change-tracking
Hi austechies
I have change-tracking turned on and, after every change I make to a document,
Word 2010 tells me it has encountered a serious error and has to close. Yes,
after every single change. It's driving me batty.
Has any else had this problem and knows of a workaround?
Cheers
Geoffrey Marnell
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