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Problem opening Word document - very odd!
I received a Word doc (an application form for a job) by e-mail from a
trusted source. Opens fine on two other computers (one with WinXP/Word2003 the other WinXP/Word2000) - seems to be made up of a series of text boxes, one for each 'box' on the 3-page form). However, opening on my laptop (WinXP/Word2003) - whether from an e-mailed copy, or direct over the network - opens the file as a 163 page document that contains sporadic (unreadable) jumbles of text!!! I've tried opening it with Wordpad too, but to no avail. Help, please! |
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Richard here again...
As a follow-up, I've tried viewing the document in various ' viewing modes': - In NORMAL mode, I get the logo towards the top, then a whole series of horizontal dotted lines, with two of the words from the form at intervals spaced out in a 'grid' format. - In WEB LAYOUT mode, I get most of the text boxes and container text in more-or-less the right places. - In PRINT LAYOUT it becomes 158 (rather than 3) pages, with virtually no content at all! - READING LAYOUT takes a long time to generate and when it does, much of the text and the boxes are there, but not quite right... - OUTLINE Produces the same as NORMAL, but with tiny boxes instead of the dotted lines. Hope that helps! "Richard" wrote: I received a Word doc (an application form for a job) by e-mail from a trusted source. Opens fine on two other computers (one with WinXP/Word2003 the other WinXP/Word2000) - seems to be made up of a series of text boxes, one for each 'box' on the 3-page form). However, opening on my laptop (WinXP/Word2003) - whether from an e-mailed copy, or direct over the network - opens the file as a 163 page document that contains sporadic (unreadable) jumbles of text!!! I've tried opening it with Wordpad too, but to no avail. Help, please! |
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