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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / November 2004Rash of corrupted documents
We are using Word 2003 SP1 and Windoze XP Pro SP2. Several members of my group have had corrupted documents recently on their own computers and installations of Word, so this could be a bug in Word although the documents are often shared among the several computers. Fortunately, the Word repair document in the open menu seemed to fix the problem. The interesting symptom is the corrupted documents increased to approximately 10X the size of the uncorrupted documents. It is interesting because this problem seems to be new. We don't use master documents and we have fast saves turned off. Any suggestions on how to report this bug will be appreciated. There are no diagnostics when opening the document, just the statement that the document 'may' be corrupt. I have a copy of the corrupted document if any would like to take a look at it. Best wishes, Pete Not an expert, but; They're not sharing Normal.Dot, are they? i.e. each local machine should have it's own Normal.Dot.  SignatureRegards; Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > We are using Word 2003 SP1 and Windoze XP Pro SP2. Several members of my > group have had corrupted documents recently on their own computers and [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Pete Affirmative. The documents are transferred as outlook e-mail attachments between machines. They do include figures as enhance metafiles, and we are using EndNote 8 for managing the bibliographies. They are not shared across the netowrk. Pete > Not an expert, but; > They're not sharing Normal.Dot, are they? [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >> >> Pete It is not unknown for Word documents to become corrupted by e-mail. Zipping the documents before transmission both reduces bandwidth and the opportunity for corruption. If the machines are networked, why are you transferring files by e-mail? Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Affirmative. The documents are transferred as outlook e-mail > attachments between machines. [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >>> >>> Pete > If the machines are networked, why are you transferring files by e-mail? Because Windows XP Pro does such a poor job with peer-2-peer networks. At a university we can't afford the exorbidant costs of Windows Server Software. In order to have a secure (i.e., non-simple file sharing) every user must have an account on every computer which is not worth the administrative overhead. In addition, e-mail is a good way to maintain version control because the drafts are stored in the Outlook mailbox folder OLK6 as a backup for each user when they send a copy. Fortunately, disk space is relatively cheap. Thanks, Pete > It is not unknown for Word documents to become corrupted by e-mail. > Zipping [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] >>>> >>>> Pete It's also not unknown for EndNote to be implicated in problems--how recently did you switch to EndNote 8? DM > Affirmative. The documents are transferred as outlook e-mail attachments > between machines. [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >>> >>> Pete SignatureDaiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: <http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/> What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
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