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Can't open doc
I have a 28-meg Word doc that I suddenly can't open. It *appears* to hang on
the cover page. It's around 150 pages long--the large size is due to a multitude of graphics. I noticed a few days ago that the doc was taking forever to save, and then last night it wouldn't save at all. Task Manager showed the "unresponsive" status so I gave up, went home and tried again when I got back to work this morning. Finally had to End Task to get out of Word and after that, couldn't open that file again. Yesterday when I was working on the doc, I copied some material from another doc and pasted it into this doc, so I'm wondering if I imported some corruption in the process. However, since I can't open the file, I can't remove the new material. I tried opening the doc in Wordpad and saving as RTF but it ballooned to 147 megs and when I reopened it, it consisted of a single blank page. I'm at a loss. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there another format I can open this in? (Besides ASCII, that is. I'd really prefer to save the 150 pages of formatting and graphics...) Thanks for any help, Gay Alson galson_at_nsbgroup_dot_com |
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Sorry I didn't include version: Word 2000 (9.0.4119 SR-1)
"Gay Alson" galsonatnsbgroupdotcom wrote in message ... I have a 28-meg Word doc that I suddenly can't open. It *appears* to hang on the cover page. It's around 150 pages long--the large size is due to a multitude of graphics. I noticed a few days ago that the doc was taking forever to save, and then last night it wouldn't save at all. Task Manager showed the "unresponsive" status so I gave up, went home and tried again when I got back to work this morning. Finally had to End Task to get out of Word and after that, couldn't open that file again. Yesterday when I was working on the doc, I copied some material from another doc and pasted it into this doc, so I'm wondering if I imported some corruption in the process. However, since I can't open the file, I can't remove the new material. I tried opening the doc in Wordpad and saving as RTF but it ballooned to 147 megs and when I reopened it, it consisted of a single blank page. I'm at a loss. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there another format I can open this in? (Besides ASCII, that is. I'd really prefer to save the 150 pages of formatting and graphics...) Thanks for any help, Gay Alson galson_at_nsbgroup_dot_com |
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