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open a .txt file and Word is changing page numbers
I am trying to open a .txt file in Word 2003. It changed the page numbers
from original location of the top right corner to the left margin and added zero's in front of it. The page breaks are also gone. How can I open .txt files and have Word not change them? |
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open a .txt file and Word is changing page numbers
just select the paragraph you want to open with word then copy and paste it
to the word "wilfet" wrote: I am trying to open a .txt file in Word 2003. It changed the page numbers from original location of the top right corner to the left margin and added zero's in front of it. The page breaks are also gone. How can I open .txt files and have Word not change them? |
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open a .txt file and Word is changing page numbers
TXT files do not support headers, footers or pages. Any 'pages' shown when
you open a TXT file in Word are simply set as a result of the current page settings in Word, largely determined by the printer driver. If you save as plain text those margins and page settings are eliminated from the saved version. It might be less confusing if you edited txt files in Notepad or a text editor such as UltraEdit. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wilfet wrote: I am trying to open a .txt file in Word 2003. It changed the page numbers from original location of the top right corner to the left margin and added zero's in front of it. The page breaks are also gone. How can I open .txt files and have Word not change them? |
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open a .txt file and Word is changing page numbers
When I used Word on my last computer, I am not sure of the version because it
crashed, but it didn't change the location of the page numbers and kept the page breaks. I am opening an ASCII file with a page image and it's not keeping the page image. I am doing this to convert it to a Word document. I installed all the same printers too. "Graham Mayor" wrote: TXT files do not support headers, footers or pages. Any 'pages' shown when you open a TXT file in Word are simply set as a result of the current page settings in Word, largely determined by the printer driver. If you save as plain text those margins and page settings are eliminated from the saved version. It might be less confusing if you edited txt files in Notepad or a text editor such as UltraEdit. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wilfet wrote: I am trying to open a .txt file in Word 2003. It changed the page numbers from original location of the top right corner to the left margin and added zero's in front of it. The page breaks are also gone. How can I open .txt files and have Word not change them? |
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open a .txt file and Word is changing page numbers
I don't know what you mean by a 'page image' in respect of a text file. A
text file is simply that - text!. It cannot contain images. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wilfet wrote: When I used Word on my last computer, I am not sure of the version because it crashed, but it didn't change the location of the page numbers and kept the page breaks. I am opening an ASCII file with a page image and it's not keeping the page image. I am doing this to convert it to a Word document. I installed all the same printers too. "Graham Mayor" wrote: TXT files do not support headers, footers or pages. Any 'pages' shown when you open a TXT file in Word are simply set as a result of the current page settings in Word, largely determined by the printer driver. If you save as plain text those margins and page settings are eliminated from the saved version. It might be less confusing if you edited txt files in Notepad or a text editor such as UltraEdit. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wilfet wrote: I am trying to open a .txt file in Word 2003. It changed the page numbers from original location of the top right corner to the left margin and added zero's in front of it. The page breaks are also gone. How can I open .txt files and have Word not change them? |
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open a .txt file and Word is changing page numbers
Thank you for your help. I wish I could explain it better to get the answer,
but that's just what it is. When the ASCII file is created, there's a choice of ASCII with page image or without and it's saved as an ASCII with page image so it keeps the formatting. This is a legal document so I really can't let it's format get changed like it is in this program. "Graham Mayor" wrote: I don't know what you mean by a 'page image' in respect of a text file. A text file is simply that - text!. It cannot contain images. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wilfet wrote: When I used Word on my last computer, I am not sure of the version because it crashed, but it didn't change the location of the page numbers and kept the page breaks. I am opening an ASCII file with a page image and it's not keeping the page image. I am doing this to convert it to a Word document. I installed all the same printers too. "Graham Mayor" wrote: TXT files do not support headers, footers or pages. Any 'pages' shown when you open a TXT file in Word are simply set as a result of the current page settings in Word, largely determined by the printer driver. If you save as plain text those margins and page settings are eliminated from the saved version. It might be less confusing if you edited txt files in Notepad or a text editor such as UltraEdit. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wilfet wrote: I am trying to open a .txt file in Word 2003. It changed the page numbers from original location of the top right corner to the left margin and added zero's in front of it. The page breaks are also gone. How can I open .txt files and have Word not change them? |
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open a .txt file and Word is changing page numbers
Word used to have a filter that allowed documents to be opened and saved in
ASCII format with layout - you can download that filter from my web site. It *may* do what you want. Set tools options general confirm conversions on open and select this filter. You will get a security warning message, but it will still work. The only other way you can get anything resembling 'page' information is to take the output from a generic text driver. The only way that will line up is to have Word's page settings configured in exactly the same way that the source application created them otherwise the breaks created by Word will appear in the wrong place. It would be better if your created text documents did not have this 'page image' information and allowed Word to format the documents, but then the legal profession would still prefer to use quills - its one of the ways they can justify their ridiculous fees. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wilfet wrote: Thank you for your help. I wish I could explain it better to get the answer, but that's just what it is. When the ASCII file is created, there's a choice of ASCII with page image or without and it's saved as an ASCII with page image so it keeps the formatting. This is a legal document so I really can't let it's format get changed like it is in this program. "Graham Mayor" wrote: I don't know what you mean by a 'page image' in respect of a text file. A text file is simply that - text!. It cannot contain images. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wilfet wrote: When I used Word on my last computer, I am not sure of the version because it crashed, but it didn't change the location of the page numbers and kept the page breaks. I am opening an ASCII file with a page image and it's not keeping the page image. I am doing this to convert it to a Word document. I installed all the same printers too. "Graham Mayor" wrote: TXT files do not support headers, footers or pages. Any 'pages' shown when you open a TXT file in Word are simply set as a result of the current page settings in Word, largely determined by the printer driver. If you save as plain text those margins and page settings are eliminated from the saved version. It might be less confusing if you edited txt files in Notepad or a text editor such as UltraEdit. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wilfet wrote: I am trying to open a .txt file in Word 2003. It changed the page numbers from original location of the top right corner to the left margin and added zero's in front of it. The page breaks are also gone. How can I open .txt files and have Word not change them? |
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