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Default Word field codes and results BOTH appear

I'm sorry for not coming back sooner. I've been looking at this on and off
and beyond the fact that there are internal inconsistencies in the document
leading to the oddities you see I cannot pin down any particular
corruption - it just seems to have some information missing whilst otherwise
being in order. The corruption is not random and it appears as though the
file has been wrongly built. It is unlikely (though not impossible) that
Word itself did this and Cindy's suggestion that it may have been saved by
another program supposedly in Word format would explain it and I can't come
up with anything better. If true, whoever did it ought to be aware of having
done something unusual even if not aware of the consequences but,
unfortunately, I don't think there's anything you can do to fix it

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Carol B" wrote in message
...
Many thanks for continuing to look at this. FYI: I can recover the

document's
content without too much trouble (the easiest way would be to go back to

an
earlier version of the document)--but I'd like to know what happened and

how
to prevent it in the future. This will be part of a much longer document

and
I don't want the same thing to happen again--the longer one would be more
difficult to recover.

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

I have received the document. Thank you Carol.

It is clearly corrupt. The fields (TOC, Hyperlinks) do exist and are
accessible via VBA. Pressing F11 to skip through the fields does

something
but I haven't quite worked out what. There also appears to be something
amiss with the Comments. I am too tired to study it further at the

moment
but will try and report back tomorrow.

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Carol B" wrote in message
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How do I get the file to you?

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

The braces are just how Word displays field delimiters - they are

not
brace
characters in the file. If Word displays both the field and the code

and
all
the delimiters it is because it is not recognising the Field and I
suspect.the document has got corrupted although in exactly what way

it
is
hard to say. If you would care to send me a copy of the document I

would
be
happy to take a look but I don't guarantee anything :-)

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Carol B" wrote in message
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Thx. for responses. It's Word 2003. Tools/options/field codes is

not
checked.
As far as I can tell it's just one document. I'm getting squares,

not
brackets. The font I'm using does have the capability of showing

brackets.
Any other suggestions?

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

That isn't right at all. Either the document or Word have some
corruption.

If it happens in all documents, try Help Detect and Repair.

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Carol B" Carol wrote in message
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This is what is showing up in my Word document:
"OHYPERLINK "
O"
(only instead of O I am really getting squares)
If I right click, then edit hyperlink, the text shows as


and
the
link shows as .
What I want to show up is
(with blue underline),
hyperlinked
to
. I can't figure out why I am getting the

extra
text.
Alt-F9 doesn't do anything. This is also happening with other

field
codes.
What is going on?