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Subject:Re: Corruption in Word 97 Master Documents From:Nicole Cvetkovic <ncvetkov -at- MAIL -dot- ISLAND -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:16:42 -0700
Scott:
I had a similar problem in Word 97, only that my document became corrupt
when I tried to print it from Page Layout view. Our office tekkie looked
into the matter by taking it all the way to the top (I use the term
loosely) and contacting Microsoft. Apparently, the problem lies not in
the master-sub arrangement, but in working with the document in Page
Layout view.
When I heard this juicy bit of info, I did a reprint from Normal view of
a non-corrupt document version I had saved and, lo and behold, it
printed fine. I suppose the moral of this story is to not use Page
Layout view for anything in Word 97.
Hope this helps!
Nicole
Scott Cover wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having difficulties in Word 97 and wondered if anyone has
> any
> solutions.
>
> I created a master doc with 12 sub documents and it worked fine.
> When
> I added an index and table of contents it still worked. When I
> edited
> in the page layout view I got a "this document may be
> corrupt..."
> warning for the master document and a couple of the sub docs.
>
> I downloaded the correction macro from Microsoft's webpage, but
> it
> only works sometimes. It cleaned up the corrupted files, but
> when I
> created a new master doc and try to insert the cleaned sub docs,
> one
> sub doc is again determined to possibly be corrupted.
>
> I don't want to have to retype the entire sub doc as it is fairly
> long
> and I don't know why the macro fixes one and not the other.
> Anybody
> know?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Cover
> Technical Writer
>
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