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Boxes in endnotes and lost embedded objects
I was working on a Word file yesterday and was almost done. I selected
the endnotes section to format them all the same (font size and none under the indentation). When I tried to save it, The file seemingly shorted out, and Word then froze. The restored version that I was able to open appeared with three strange things: 1. The embedded PowerPoint slides show a field that contains text such as: EMBED PowerPoint.Slide.8. When I right click and select object, I get the message "This object is corrupt or is no longer available." 2. The page numbers appear with a box PAGE another box the page number and another box; BOX PAGE BOX 23 BOX. 3. The endnotes all have boxes where they should be in the document and if you hover over them, they still are attached to the right end notes, but you don't see a number, just what appears to be an empty box. In the end notes section, you see the same empty boxes in front of each listed end note, where the number should be. I think the PPT objects need to be re-inserted, but what about the end notes? Any help is greatly appreciated. |
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Have you tried pressing Alt+F9?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Christina" wrote in message ... I was working on a Word file yesterday and was almost done. I selected the endnotes section to format them all the same (font size and none under the indentation). When I tried to save it, The file seemingly shorted out, and Word then froze. The restored version that I was able to open appeared with three strange things: 1. The embedded PowerPoint slides show a field that contains text such as: EMBED PowerPoint.Slide.8. When I right click and select object, I get the message "This object is corrupt or is no longer available." 2. The page numbers appear with a box PAGE another box the page number and another box; BOX PAGE BOX 23 BOX. 3. The endnotes all have boxes where they should be in the document and if you hover over them, they still are attached to the right end notes, but you don't see a number, just what appears to be an empty box. In the end notes section, you see the same empty boxes in front of each listed end note, where the number should be. I think the PPT objects need to be re-inserted, but what about the end notes? Any help is greatly appreciated. |
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Yep. I also just realized that the "boxes" open up in what appears to be a
different font on differnt machines. Like one computer they look just square, another they look like 3D square. Don't think this helps but thought it strange. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you tried pressing Alt+F9? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Christina" wrote in message ... I was working on a Word file yesterday and was almost done. I selected the endnotes section to format them all the same (font size and none under the indentation). When I tried to save it, The file seemingly shorted out, and Word then froze. The restored version that I was able to open appeared with three strange things: 1. The embedded PowerPoint slides show a field that contains text such as: EMBED PowerPoint.Slide.8. When I right click and select object, I get the message "This object is corrupt or is no longer available." 2. The page numbers appear with a box PAGE another box the page number and another box; BOX PAGE BOX 23 BOX. 3. The endnotes all have boxes where they should be in the document and if you hover over them, they still are attached to the right end notes, but you don't see a number, just what appears to be an empty box. In the end notes section, you see the same empty boxes in front of each listed end note, where the number should be. I think the PPT objects need to be re-inserted, but what about the end notes? Any help is greatly appreciated. |
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If you wou would like a sample of the doc, I will gladly send it to you.
Thanks again for any help. _c "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you tried pressing Alt+F9? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Christina" wrote in message ... I was working on a Word file yesterday and was almost done. I selected the endnotes section to format them all the same (font size and none under the indentation). When I tried to save it, The file seemingly shorted out, and Word then froze. The restored version that I was able to open appeared with three strange things: 1. The embedded PowerPoint slides show a field that contains text such as: EMBED PowerPoint.Slide.8. When I right click and select object, I get the message "This object is corrupt or is no longer available." 2. The page numbers appear with a box PAGE another box the page number and another box; BOX PAGE BOX 23 BOX. 3. The endnotes all have boxes where they should be in the document and if you hover over them, they still are attached to the right end notes, but you don't see a number, just what appears to be an empty box. In the end notes section, you see the same empty boxes in front of each listed end note, where the number should be. I think the PPT objects need to be re-inserted, but what about the end notes? Any help is greatly appreciated. |
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Yes, send it to my email, and I'll take a look.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Christina" wrote in message ... If you wou would like a sample of the doc, I will gladly send it to you. Thanks again for any help. _c "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you tried pressing Alt+F9? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Christina" wrote in message ... I was working on a Word file yesterday and was almost done. I selected the endnotes section to format them all the same (font size and none under the indentation). When I tried to save it, The file seemingly shorted out, and Word then froze. The restored version that I was able to open appeared with three strange things: 1. The embedded PowerPoint slides show a field that contains text such as: EMBED PowerPoint.Slide.8. When I right click and select object, I get the message "This object is corrupt or is no longer available." 2. The page numbers appear with a box PAGE another box the page number and another box; BOX PAGE BOX 23 BOX. 3. The endnotes all have boxes where they should be in the document and if you hover over them, they still are attached to the right end notes, but you don't see a number, just what appears to be an empty box. In the end notes section, you see the same empty boxes in front of each listed end note, where the number should be. I think the PPT objects need to be re-inserted, but what about the end notes? Any help is greatly appreciated. |
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Suzanne kindly looked at a sample from the document and determined the
following: Although the field-looking things display shading when clicked on (like fields), toggling field display doesn't affect them. If I use Open and Repair, they are converted to plain text (at least the PowerPoint slide one and the page number; the endnote references still behave as expected), which suggests that they are damaged fields. Was the document perhaps created in WordPerfect or some other application? I don't know of any way to repair this document beyond what Open and Repair is capable of, so it may be necessary to delete and recreate the endnotes. Although that is a bit tedious, here's how to proceed: 1. On the endnotes page, select and copy the text of the first endnote (excluding the paragraph mark). 2. Go to the endnote reference in the text (unfortunately you can't do this by double-clicking on the endnote reference mark in the note--another sign that something is broken). 3. Delete the endnote reference in the text. 4. Ctrl+Alt+D to insert a new endnote, and paste in the copied text. You can actually speed up the process of going to the endnotes a bit this way: 1. Switch to Normal view. 2. Double-click on the reference mark for the *last* endnote. 3. Copy the endnote text and close the endnote pane. 4. Change the browse object to Browse by Endnote and click on the Previous Endnote button to get to the last endnote reference in the text. 5. Delete and reinsert the endnote, paste in the copied text, close the endnote pane, and use Previous Endnote again to get to the next-to-last endnote and repeat the process. It takes longer to describe than to do. I wish I could help more, but the document is obviously just very badly damaged. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Yes, send it to my email, and I'll take a look. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Christina" wrote in message ... If you wou would like a sample of the doc, I will gladly send it to you. Thanks again for any help. _c "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you tried pressing Alt+F9? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Christina" wrote in message ... I was working on a Word file yesterday and was almost done. I selected the endnotes section to format them all the same (font size and none under the indentation). When I tried to save it, The file seemingly shorted out, and Word then froze. The restored version that I was able to open appeared with three strange things: 1. The embedded PowerPoint slides show a field that contains text such as: EMBED PowerPoint.Slide.8. When I right click and select object, I get the message "This object is corrupt or is no longer available." 2. The page numbers appear with a box PAGE another box the page number and another box; BOX PAGE BOX 23 BOX. 3. The endnotes all have boxes where they should be in the document and if you hover over them, they still are attached to the right end notes, but you don't see a number, just what appears to be an empty box. In the end notes section, you see the same empty boxes in front of each listed end note, where the number should be. I think the PPT objects need to be re-inserted, but what about the end notes? Any help is greatly appreciated. |
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On 4ÔÂ2ÈÕ, ÉÏÎç2ʱ12·Ö, Christina
wrote: I was working on aWordfile yesterday and was almost done. I selected the endnotes section to format them all the same (font size and none under the indentation). When I tried to save it, The file seemingly shorted out, andWordthen froze. The restored version that I was able to open appeared with three strange things: 1. The embedded PowerPoint slides show a field that contains text such as: EMBED PowerPoint.Slide.8. When I right click and select object, I get the message "This object is corrupt or is no longer available." 2. The page numbers appear with a box PAGE another box the page number and another box; BOX PAGE BOX 23 BOX. 3. The endnotes all have boxes where they should be in the document and if you hover over them, they still are attached to the right end notes, but you don't see a number, just what appears to be an empty box. In the end notes section, you see the same empty boxes in front of each listed end note, where the number should be. I think the PPT objects need to be re-inserted, but what about the end notes? Any help is greatly appreciated. Hi, I think you can try a utility called Advanced Word Repair to repair your Word document. It works rather well for my corrupt Word documents. Its web address is http://www.datanumen.com/awr/ Alan |
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