[WCDoan]

I have a friend who is using Word 2000 with Windows 98. Everytime he saves a
document it adds 20-30 lines of text to it. It appears that it's information
about the document...fonts used, directory location, user name, etc...I have
checked out the normal.dot file and it appears ok. Even renamed it and let
Word create a new one. It still adds the text to whatever the document is. If
you type one word and save it, Word adds 20-30 extra lines. Anyone have any
ideas as to how I could help fix this? Thanks, RandyM

[Beth Melton]

Have your friend display the Open dialog box and change the Files of Type
from "Recover text from any file" to "Word Documents".

What he is seeing is information that is stored in the file as you noted,
fonts, user name, directory location, (which btw, the latter is no longer
stored) and is not normally displayed on the screen.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"WCDoan" wrote in message
...
I have a friend who is using Word 2000 with Windows 98. Everytime he saves
a
document it adds 20-30 lines of text to it. It appears that it's
information
about the document...fonts used, directory location, user name, etc...I
have
checked out the normal.dot file and it appears ok. Even renamed it and let
Word create a new one. It still adds the text to whatever the document is.
If
you type one word and save it, Word adds 20-30 extra lines. Anyone have
any
ideas as to how I could help fix this? Thanks, RandyM

[WCDoan]

Thanks so much Beth. That did it! Benny's gonna love you forever. He's been
putting up with that for months and just asked me today if I could fix it.
Tried, but couldn't. You did. Thanks again.

"Beth Melton" wrote:

Have your friend display the Open dialog box and change the Files of Type
from "Recover text from any file" to "Word Documents".

What he is seeing is information that is stored in the file as you noted,
fonts, user name, directory location, (which btw, the latter is no longer
stored) and is not normally displayed on the screen.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"WCDoan" wrote in message
...
I have a friend who is using Word 2000 with Windows 98. Everytime he saves
a
document it adds 20-30 lines of text to it. It appears that it's
information
about the document...fonts used, directory location, user name, etc...I
have
checked out the normal.dot file and it appears ok. Even renamed it and let
Word create a new one. It still adds the text to whatever the document is.
If
you type one word and save it, Word adds 20-30 extra lines. Anyone have
any
ideas as to how I could help fix this? Thanks, RandyM

[Beth Melton]

You and Benny are welcome. :-) As an aside thankfully this issue no longer
occurs in more recent versions of Word. They no longer allow the "Recover
text from any file" type to be a "sticky" setting.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"WCDoan" wrote in message
...
Thanks so much Beth. That did it! Benny's gonna love you forever. He's
been
putting up with that for months and just asked me today if I could fix it.
Tried, but couldn't. You did. Thanks again.

"Beth Melton" wrote:

Have your friend display the Open dialog box and change the Files of Type
from "Recover text from any file" to "Word Documents".

What he is seeing is information that is stored in the file as you noted,
fonts, user name, directory location, (which btw, the latter is no longer
stored) and is not normally displayed on the screen.

"WCDoan" wrote in message
...
I have a friend who is using Word 2000 with Windows 98. Everytime he
saves
a
document it adds 20-30 lines of text to it. It appears that it's
information
about the document...fonts used, directory location, user name, etc...I
have
checked out the normal.dot file and it appears ok. Even renamed it and
let
Word create a new one. It still adds the text to whatever the document
is.
If
you type one word and save it, Word adds 20-30 extra lines. Anyone have
any
ideas as to how I could help fix this? Thanks, RandyM