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Word 07 trashes large files - repeatable bug
Upgraded from Office pro 03 (power user) to Office Ent 07 on stand alone
laptop with XP... Word 07 trashes long documents, and it is replicatable every time. From explorer, double click to Open 03 document (45 pages, with automated TOC, Index and index fields to mark index entries) Attach a custom Style Set (Home, Change Style Set); This style set represents the styles used by the 03 template that the document was created on. The document looks fine. Save AS to different folder, uncheck compatibility with 03 Disaster... reopen you document - is is truncated to 6 pages, TOC and all styles are totally trashed making it useless. or From Word O7, open same docuemnt 03 document Convert to 07 (actually, it doesn't matter if you convert or save in compatibility mode, it is still trashed). Everything looks fine Save as to different folder same Disaster as above when you reopen it After spending a day, here is the only way to do it: Open 03 file Delete TOC, Index, and remove all Index Fields that mark index entires Attach a custom style set (I don't think this matters) convert to 07 (I don't think this matters) Save AS to different file. Open File, it looks fine. Now you have to rebuild the TOC, Index. Buidling an Index via a concondance file seems to have dissappeared from Word 07, I will post that seperately. This is incredibly dangerous. I think what is trashing the file is the index entries when you convert to 07. Any comments? Why does MS put out software like this? Bob |
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Word 07 trashes large files - repeatable bug
Eliminating the XE fields seems to "cure" the corruption.
Hey... we don't need no stinkin' index. Right? -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Bob Day" wrote in message ... Upgraded from Office pro 03 (power user) to Office Ent 07 on stand alone laptop with XP... Word 07 trashes long documents, and it is replicatable every time. From explorer, double click to Open 03 document (45 pages, with automated TOC, Index and index fields to mark index entries) Attach a custom Style Set (Home, Change Style Set); This style set represents the styles used by the 03 template that the document was created on. The document looks fine. Save AS to different folder, uncheck compatibility with 03 Disaster... reopen you document - is is truncated to 6 pages, TOC and all styles are totally trashed making it useless. or From Word O7, open same docuemnt 03 document Convert to 07 (actually, it doesn't matter if you convert or save in compatibility mode, it is still trashed). Everything looks fine Save as to different folder same Disaster as above when you reopen it After spending a day, here is the only way to do it: Open 03 file Delete TOC, Index, and remove all Index Fields that mark index entires Attach a custom style set (I don't think this matters) convert to 07 (I don't think this matters) Save AS to different file. Open File, it looks fine. Now you have to rebuild the TOC, Index. Buidling an Index via a concondance file seems to have dissappeared from Word 07, I will post that seperately. This is incredibly dangerous. I think what is trashing the file is the index entries when you convert to 07. Any comments? Why does MS put out software like this? Bob |
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