Usually you get bitten by this one only once. After that you recognize the
symptoms. Word 2000 is the last version in which it causes much of a
problem; in Word 2002 and 2003, the file type is not "sticky"; it reverts to
All Files the next time you use File Open.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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http://word.mvps.org
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"david" wrote in message
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THANK YOU!
I looked and looked and looked but of course in the wrong place.
David
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Unmistakable symptoms. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/RecoverText.htm
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"david" wrote in message
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For three years, I have used several word 97 tables with mail merge to
print
Christmas card envelopes. This year when I opened the tables to edit
them,
they were text in a column, not a table. I tried using them with mail
merge
and they work fine; however, the text column is hard to edit.
In windows explorer, I created a new folder and moved the files to that
folder. If I double click on one of the files in explorer, the file
opens
in
word 97 and is a table. When I open word 97 and then open the file, it
is
the text column. I can not seem to find what is causing the files to be
different.
I am using winxp home sp2.
David