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

Unmistakable symptoms. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/RecoverText.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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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

THANK YOU!

I looked and looked and looked but of course in the wrong place.

David


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Unmistakable symptoms. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/RecoverText.htm

--
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.

"david" wrote in message
...
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

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.

--
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.

"david" wrote in message
...
THANK YOU!

I looked and looked and looked but of course in the wrong place.

David


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Unmistakable symptoms. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/RecoverText.htm

--
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.

"david" wrote in message
...
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