Corrupt footer (page number)

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Mike - 12 May 2005 22:22 GMT

I sometimes have documents where the footer cannot be edited - as if the
text is locked. When I display codes I'll sometimes see part of a page
code - {PAGE - without the closing bracket. These codes cannot be deleted -
even if I select the entire footer. Also, it's just the footer that's the
problem - the header is fine. I've tried removing any section breaks (if
they exist). The only solution - which I don't like since it means creating
a new document - is to save the file as a HTML document, reopen, then resave
it as a Word document.

Any suggestions or ideas for fixing this problematic footers? TIA,

Mike

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 12 May 2005 22:47 GMT

The advice you were given (perhaps by
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm?) is good. If the
document is corrupt, you need to do something to get rid of the corruption.

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> I sometimes have documents where the footer cannot be edited - as if the
> text is locked. When I display codes I'll sometimes see part of a page
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> Mike

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Mike - 12 May 2005 23:40 GMT

This works, but the issue is we use a document management system - and
saving documents locally tends to mess things up (not the document, but the
document numbering). While the problem varies somewhat, it's always in the
footer, and it's always something that cannot be deleted. Saving as HTML
has (thus far) always worked, and the problem is intermitent, so I'm not
worried that this solution won't work, but I was looking for other things I
might try.

Thanks again,

Mike

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 13 May 2005 00:48 GMT

FWIW, the only time I had this problem was in a much earlier version of Word
(possibly Word 97) and was corrected by a service pack. ISTR that one of the
things that was related (heaven only knows how) was saving a preview picture
with the document (which is a bad idea, anyway, since it pointlessly
balloons the file size).

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> This works, but the issue is we use a document management system - and
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Mike - 16 May 2005 21:11 GMT

I don't have this document any more to work with, but a couple other
thoughts came to mind. Often when I see this problem there's a frame
involved; sometimes, not always, I can select and delete the frame.
Sometimes the document crashes when I do this. I'm thinking, but am not
sure, that inserted page numbers (which puts page numbers in a frame) are
somehow involved.

Thanks!

Mike

> FWIW, the only time I had this problem was in a much earlier version of Word
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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 16 May 2005 23:54 GMT

A likely possibility, though not in my case, as I have never used Insert |
Page Numbers (I didn't even know the command existed till my then
high-school-age daughter pointed it out to me <g>).

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