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Word 2000: little black square, cursor disappears, block stops, rogue linefeeds...
4 I have noticed bits of text disappearing randomly. But they are apparently on the display only and don't permanently alter the file. Please confirm. I suspect that this is a display issue. I'd download the latest drivers from the website of the manufacturers of your video card and monitor for your version of Windows. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne for all your good help. I may have posted some of this before and if so I apologise. This is a summary of where I am: 1 I have been able to remove the "keep together" square blocks in the left margin. 2 I have established that my large document was indeed corrupt because trying to put in headers showed things like 'section 1, section 2...' etc. and I knew I only had one section! Sure enough there was a rogue section break, which I deleted. 3 I do back up to floppies (or did!) so possibly that's the reason I got corrupt stuff beginning to happen. I now intend to copy whole files to floppies under Explorer. Is that OK? 4 I have noticed bits of text disappearing randomly. But they are apparently on the display only and don't permanently alter the file. Please confirm. 5 I continue to have problems with headers, eg the PAGENUM functiuon increments so I get page 1 or 1, 181 of 181, etc. 6 What I am thinking of doing is a complete re-install of Word (2000) from the CD. Will this give me a clean normal.dot or is there a better way? I will check the 'prompt me before updating normal.dot' which I understand is a recommended procedure. If you able to reply directly on this rarther than links to MVP site it would be good, unless of course the answers are lengthy. We are getting to a point where I may have to ask you to name a charity of your choice that I can contribute to in recognition of the great work you've done Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: When you are formatting the numbering, set the alignment to Right instead of Left and your numbers will align on the ones digit. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message ... Frankly I'm nervous about doing this, because patches often seem to introduce new problems and this is now my livelihood! For example, various articles say the SP 2(?) causes Word to freeze! There is this risk with all software. On the whole my original Word 2000 works well, with the exception of the problems described (which may be due to the original author playing with stuff). The only real bug I've ever noticed until I tried to edit the current file is that in numbering, the single numbers line up with the tens in the double, ie they do not comply with mathematical (Tidy) practice... An example of the reason for my caution about software is yesterday I installed the anti-virus software Vet. Now it takes control of my browser and takes me to trial redirection pages that don't redirect. It hangs up my machine when I try to delete it. And generally it's messed up everything so that I shall probably have to takes hours to clean my disk and reinstall all my software! Shauna Kelly wrote: Hi aalaan I'm using Word 2000 with no updates Then it's time to update! Go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/default.aspx and click "Check for updates" in roughly the top right-hand corner. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word wrote in message ... Hi all you experts! I'm using Word 2000 with no updates. I have a handful of very irritating problems and would be gald of your expert answers. 1 What are the little black squares in several places in (someone else's) documents? I can't reach them with the cursor. How can I get rid of them? 2 Every now and then the cursor disappears completely and I'm flying blind. OK in other places in the document. What's happening? 3 Sometimes when I block large chunks of text the block reaches a stop and I have to deal with that and then select a new block. 4 Sometimes the delete key will not delete and I have to block mark and then delete. 5 Sometimes random linefeeds seem to occur and break up continuous text. 6 I need to work with 50,000-word and up documents. Is thi size a particular danger? Your replies to any of these will save my sanity! Thanks aalaan |
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Word 2000: little black square, cursor disappears, block stops, rogue linefeeds...
Although I did have peekaboo text in one of my documents that was corrupted.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Shauna Kelly" wrote in message ... 4 I have noticed bits of text disappearing randomly. But they are apparently on the display only and don't permanently alter the file. Please confirm. I suspect that this is a display issue. I'd download the latest drivers from the website of the manufacturers of your video card and monitor for your version of Windows. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne for all your good help. I may have posted some of this before and if so I apologise. This is a summary of where I am: 1 I have been able to remove the "keep together" square blocks in the left margin. 2 I have established that my large document was indeed corrupt because trying to put in headers showed things like 'section 1, section 2...' etc. and I knew I only had one section! Sure enough there was a rogue section break, which I deleted. 3 I do back up to floppies (or did!) so possibly that's the reason I got corrupt stuff beginning to happen. I now intend to copy whole files to floppies under Explorer. Is that OK? 4 I have noticed bits of text disappearing randomly. But they are apparently on the display only and don't permanently alter the file. Please confirm. 5 I continue to have problems with headers, eg the PAGENUM functiuon increments so I get page 1 or 1, 181 of 181, etc. 6 What I am thinking of doing is a complete re-install of Word (2000) from the CD. Will this give me a clean normal.dot or is there a better way? I will check the 'prompt me before updating normal.dot' which I understand is a recommended procedure. If you able to reply directly on this rarther than links to MVP site it would be good, unless of course the answers are lengthy. We are getting to a point where I may have to ask you to name a charity of your choice that I can contribute to in recognition of the great work you've done Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: When you are formatting the numbering, set the alignment to Right instead of Left and your numbers will align on the ones digit. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message ... Frankly I'm nervous about doing this, because patches often seem to introduce new problems and this is now my livelihood! For example, various articles say the SP 2(?) causes Word to freeze! There is this risk with all software. On the whole my original Word 2000 works well, with the exception of the problems described (which may be due to the original author playing with stuff). The only real bug I've ever noticed until I tried to edit the current file is that in numbering, the single numbers line up with the tens in the double, ie they do not comply with mathematical (Tidy) practice... An example of the reason for my caution about software is yesterday I installed the anti-virus software Vet. Now it takes control of my browser and takes me to trial redirection pages that don't redirect. It hangs up my machine when I try to delete it. And generally it's messed up everything so that I shall probably have to takes hours to clean my disk and reinstall all my software! Shauna Kelly wrote: Hi aalaan I'm using Word 2000 with no updates Then it's time to update! Go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/default.aspx and click "Check for updates" in roughly the top right-hand corner. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word wrote in message ... Hi all you experts! I'm using Word 2000 with no updates. I have a handful of very irritating problems and would be gald of your expert answers. 1 What are the little black squares in several places in (someone else's) documents? I can't reach them with the cursor. How can I get rid of them? 2 Every now and then the cursor disappears completely and I'm flying blind. OK in other places in the document. What's happening? 3 Sometimes when I block large chunks of text the block reaches a stop and I have to deal with that and then select a new block. 4 Sometimes the delete key will not delete and I have to block mark and then delete. 5 Sometimes random linefeeds seem to occur and break up continuous text. 6 I need to work with 50,000-word and up documents. Is thi size a particular danger? Your replies to any of these will save my sanity! Thanks aalaan |
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