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Characters appear as squares
While browsing through some of my older documents I have discovered that a
large majority of them have changed... When the Word documents are opened, all the characters appear as little empty squares. And in the NotePad documents, the characters are "invisible". Is it possible that these files might have become corrupted? If so, is there any way of salvaging them? All these documents were created in standard fonts and I am currently using Office 2000 Premium. Thanks for any help. |
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It could be that you no longer have some of the fonts used in the older Word
docs. I don't understand what you mean by characters in Notepad being invisible. Can you explain that differently? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Joelle" wrote in message ... While browsing through some of my older documents I have discovered that a large majority of them have changed... When the Word documents are opened, all the characters appear as little empty squares. And in the NotePad documents, the characters are "invisible". Is it possible that these files might have become corrupted? If so, is there any way of salvaging them? All these documents were created in standard fonts and I am currently using Office 2000 Premium. Thanks for any help. |
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The NotePad document characters appear the same way opened in WordPad as they
do in Word; those small squares. I suppose that "square" character isn't recognizable in NotePad so it shows up as a blank space: invisible but selectable. As for the older fonts; most of the documents were typed in Times New Roman or Arial. So I don't understand how they might not be recognizable... Are there different variations of each font depending on the version of Office used? Thanks again for your help. "JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote: It could be that you no longer have some of the fonts used in the older Word docs. I don't understand what you mean by characters in Notepad being invisible. Can you explain that differently? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Joelle" wrote in message ... While browsing through some of my older documents I have discovered that a large majority of them have changed... When the Word documents are opened, all the characters appear as little empty squares. And in the NotePad documents, the characters are "invisible". Is it possible that these files might have become corrupted? If so, is there any way of salvaging them? All these documents were created in standard fonts and I am currently using Office 2000 Premium. Thanks for any help. |
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Can you send that file to me? Let me see if I get the same results as you
do. If you want to take me up on the offer, send it to jl dot paules at gmail dot com. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Joelle" wrote in message ... The NotePad document characters appear the same way opened in WordPad as they do in Word; those small squares. I suppose that "square" character isn't recognizable in NotePad so it shows up as a blank space: invisible but selectable. As for the older fonts; most of the documents were typed in Times New Roman or Arial. So I don't understand how they might not be recognizable... Are there different variations of each font depending on the version of Office used? Thanks again for your help. "JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote: It could be that you no longer have some of the fonts used in the older Word docs. I don't understand what you mean by characters in Notepad being invisible. Can you explain that differently? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Joelle" wrote in message ... While browsing through some of my older documents I have discovered that a large majority of them have changed... When the Word documents are opened, all the characters appear as little empty squares. And in the NotePad documents, the characters are "invisible". Is it possible that these files might have become corrupted? If so, is there any way of salvaging them? All these documents were created in standard fonts and I am currently using Office 2000 Premium. Thanks for any help. |
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I have a very similar situation when inserting notepad text into word as part
of our application. On some macines (various versions of word) the carriage return is treated as a Paragraph plus an unprintable character displayed as an empty square. This might be a CRLF interpretation, an old word problem, or some font issue. Anybody got a solution to this. -- Glenn "JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote: It could be that you no longer have some of the fonts used in the older Word docs. I don't understand what you mean by characters in Notepad being invisible. Can you explain that differently? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Joelle" wrote in message ... While browsing through some of my older documents I have discovered that a large majority of them have changed... When the Word documents are opened, all the characters appear as little empty squares. And in the NotePad documents, the characters are "invisible". Is it possible that these files might have become corrupted? If so, is there any way of salvaging them? All these documents were created in standard fonts and I am currently using Office 2000 Premium. Thanks for any help. |
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