I wrote a long article (well 35 pages single spaced) with photos and foreign
fonts. It displays and prints fine but when I try to convert footnotes to
endnotes it goes into an endless loop (that is after 1500 pages I stop the
conversion). I mentioned this in here this summer and the response was that
somewhere my document is corrupted. But I cannot see where. Respondents
suggested that I convert to HTML and then back as that often repairs a
document. I did that but no help. What can I do? A publisher wants the
article for submission but the footnotes must be changed to endnotes. Do I
just have to do 155 notes by hand?
Michael Dick
Siena College

Your doc is certainly corrupt, though there are more things to try than Save
As HTML, though that's usually best.

The first way to check for a corrupt document is to
copy the entire thing, *excluding* the last paragraph mark, into a new
document. That last paragraph mark holds a lot of information which can get
corrupted, and copying the text into a document with a fresh one keeps your
formatting, but can fix some glitches. If you have multiple sections, you
may want to do this for every section.

A paragraph mark is a ¶. Click on ¶ on the standard toolbar to show
nonprinting characters, including paragraph marks.

Do you have lots of tables? Tables can corrupt too, try converting them to
Text and back to Table again.

I would try all these things on a copy, just to be safe.

See this link for further things you can try:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

DM


On 12/10/04 8:51 AM, "Michael Dick" wrote:

I wrote a long article (well 35 pages single spaced) with photos and foreign
fonts. It displays and prints fine but when I try to convert footnotes to
endnotes it goes into an endless loop (that is after 1500 pages I stop the
conversion). I mentioned this in here this summer and the response was that
somewhere my document is corrupted. But I cannot see where. Respondents
suggested that I convert to HTML and then back as that often repairs a
document. I did that but no help. What can I do? A publisher wants the
article for submission but the footnotes must be changed to endnotes. Do I
just have to do 155 notes by hand?
Michael Dick
Siena College


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