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Microsoft Word - Help Needed (Vanity)
Posted on 10/30/2003 6:31:46 PM PST by flutters
Any word wizards out there? After saving a document or e-mailing a document I get strange characters that appear at the end of my letter/docs that I do not want. The gibberish doesn't show when I start a new page, but it does after I re-save. Here is what the junk at the end looks like:
Normal Normal Default Paragraph Font Default Paragraph Font HTML Preformatted HTML Preformatted HTML Typewriter HTML Typewriter 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 ÿ＂ :\My Documents\League Information\Letters.doc Unknownÿ！ Times New Roman Times New Roman Symbol Symbol Verdana Verdana
(The junk above is shown on individual lines)
Any help would be appreciated.
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posted on
10/30/2003 6:31:47 PM PST
by
flutters
To: flutters
What that looks like is the "HTML" source code for a MIcrosoft Word Web Doc...
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posted on
10/30/2003 6:37:11 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(The Truth is to see The Gift)
To: flutters
Has the word.doc you e-mailed been opened by someone else? Sounds like HTML "style" stuff occurring. Were your documents attachments or embedded into your email program?
To: flutters
Um, what format are you saving in?
If you're saving it in text or rtf or html, then Word could be putting in weird things.
Also, check your settings (Tools | Options on the menu) and make sure you don't have 'Nonprinting characters' selected on the 'View' tab.
FWIW, make sure that you have the latest virus scan updates. If you don't have it or don't feel like paying for one, go to
Grisoft and click on the free AVG software on the left hand side.
You could have a little macro virus.
Also, make sure windows is patched with the latest updates.
I don't want it to sound like I think your system is buggy, but barring a formatting error, most likely there's something funky.
Regards.
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posted on
10/30/2003 6:37:51 PM PST
by
dyed_in_the_wool
(Slowly I turned...step by step...inch by inch...)
To: dyed_in_the_wool
I'm saving as .doc I've tried to save a few other ways, but get the same thing. I also check the settings and everything looks right. I haven't changed anything since I started getting the gibberish. Also, I do have virus software, but nothing has came up on it.
I appreciate the info. Thanks!
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posted on
10/30/2003 6:47:51 PM PST
by
flutters
(God Bless The USA)
To: flutters
I think it's a quotation mark in one of the HTML versions.
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posted on
10/30/2003 6:48:43 PM PST
by
Consort
To: Chad Fairbanks
What that looks like is the "HTML" source code for a MIcrosoft Word Web Doc... That's what I thought too, but how do I turn it off?
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posted on
10/30/2003 6:49:06 PM PST
by
flutters
(God Bless The USA)
To: Trout-Mouth
Has the word.doc you e-mailed been opened by someone else? Sounds like HTML "style" stuff occurring. Were your documents attachments or embedded into your email program? The docs were attached, but I can save a doc and it looks fine, then when I open it later it has the gibberish.
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posted on
10/30/2003 6:51:05 PM PST
by
flutters
(God Bless The USA)
To: flutters
Open word. Click on Tools, then templates and Add-Ins. Is there anything listed in there?
Also, you might delete the Normal.dot file. Word will create a new one when it restarts, in case the .dot file is the problem. But I'm not 100% certain on that one.
To: flutters
When you say you can save it--are you saving it to your hard drive after you create the "new" document or are you saving it from your e-mail, having received it via an email attachment or what exactly do you mean?
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Nothing is listed. It says 'normal' in the attachment box.
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posted on
10/30/2003 6:54:36 PM PST
by
flutters
(God Bless The USA)
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Normal is Billy boyz default and I don't believe you can delete it--I think you can only modify it.. I HATE WORD
To: flutters
Ok, then I am way off. It does have to do with viewing it with html.
To: Trout-Mouth
When you say you can save it--are you saving it to your hard drive after you create the "new" document or are you saving it from your e-mail, having received it via an email attachment or what exactly do you mean?Yes, I'm saving it to my hard drive after I create a new doc. It looks fine on the screen but then when I open it back up it has that junk at the end.
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posted on
10/30/2003 6:57:10 PM PST
by
flutters
(God Bless The USA)
To: Trout-Mouth
Yea, you can delete it. A virus fix (it was sircam or something around that time period) required the normal.dot file to be replaced by deleting it.
To: flutters
Do you know what styles are? Do you work with them at all?
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Thanks for trying. I greatly appreciate it. :)
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posted on
10/30/2003 6:58:46 PM PST
by
flutters
(God Bless The USA)
To: Trout-Mouth
Yes, I know what they are but I don't use them on this computer.
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posted on
10/30/2003 6:59:54 PM PST
by
flutters
(God Bless The USA)
To: flutters
Are you pasting something into the document from another source?
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posted on
10/30/2003 7:00:32 PM PST
by
Hootowl
To: Hootowl
Yes, sometimes I do.
Dang it, they moved my thread to chat.
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posted on
10/30/2003 7:01:46 PM PST
by
flutters
(God Bless The USA)
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