Word document corruption over a network connection

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LnR - 28 Oct 2003 07:11 GMT

I currently have a desktop and a laptop running XP on my
home network. The desktop is wired and the laptop is
wireless. I have shared out a folder on the desktop with
Word files and map it as a drive (Z:) on the laptop. I
also enabled "Make Available Offline" so that the files
will be there when I am away from my network.

On occasion when I am on my network and working on the
laptop, after a while the text at the beginning or end of
the document becomes garbled and gibberish--random
characters, page breaks, column breaks, and symbols. I
think it may have happened once with a file while I was
working with it on the desktop but its mainly on the
laptop. I was wondering what was going on and what the
issue is?

FYI: this has occurred with different Word documents, its
not just the same one.

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Shauna Kelly - 28 Oct 2003 21:36 GMT

Hi LnR

One or both of two things might be happening here.

First, when you do File > Open, make sure that the Files of Type box
does *not* say "Recover text from any file".

Second, you may have turned non-printing characters on. To turn them
off, click the ? button on the toolbar. For what these are, and why it's
often useful to see them, see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia

> I currently have a desktop and a laptop running XP on my
> home network. The desktop is wired and the laptop is
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> FYI: this has occurred with different Word documents, its
> not just the same one.

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Lnr - 28 Oct 2003 23:44 GMT

Thank you for the response, I really appreciate it. I,
unfortunately, don't do either. One example, I can give
of what happens is that I can be on page 4 of a document
typing away with the print layout view active. I then see
that my 4 page document is all of a sudden 11 pages.
I can then jump to the beginning of the document and I see
my first paragraph is a mess of garbled characters, and
column and page breaks which account for the new pages.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi LnR
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>Second, you may have turned non-printing characters on. To turn them
>off, click the ¶ button on the toolbar. For what these

are, and why it's

>often useful to see them, see
>http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm
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