corruption - but like Word's own markup language

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joseph s johnson

Hi,

One of my user's has a type of corruption in a document
that I have not seen before. I am not sure, but it looks
like the text of Word's own internal markup language. In
other words, instead of seeing "CHAPTER ONE" in the
Heading1 style, I see what looks like the markup to create
the Heading1 style. This is not HTML, but it is similar.

How do I change it back to normal?

Thanks,
Joe
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Your description is not clear enough to be sure, but here are some
possibilities:

1. You're viewing field codes instead of field results: Press Alt+F9 to
toggle the display.

2. You opened the document using the "Recover Text from Any File" setting in
the File Open dialog. Change the "Files of type" setting to "All Documents"
(or your usual setting.
 
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Lucas

Hello Joe,


This what you have to do:

Go File - Page Setup - Click default button - click yes to
revert back to the original normal template.

This should fix the problems.


Cheers,

Lucas
 
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Joe Johnson

Hi Suzanne,
Thanks for your advice regarding how *not* to use the
default button. You are right about that...the Default
button on Page Setup is not pertinent to my problem.

Regarding the advice you provided, "field codes"
and "Recover text"...I am aware of both fixes, both were
likely candidates, but neither was the answer. I thank you
for your efforts so far.

My problem is that I am seeing the markup language that is
behind Word and that is normally invisible. Here is an
example:

{\plain\f0\fs76\par }
\pard\sb0\sl-259{\plain\f0\fs22 \b \ul RESEARCH \b0 \ul0 -
To research countersig
ning issues for specific policies, there are several
inquiry systems that you ha
ve access to for research purposes \par }

What is this? Some type of SGML?
Thanks,
Joe
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Haven't a clue, but I suspect it is now part of the actual file. Do you see
this in new documents?
 
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Joe Johnson

Hi Suzanne, I have discovered that this code is a type of
rtf. It is markup, but obviously not HTML. It is as if
Word is listing the RTF code, rather than rendering it.
No. I do not see it in other documents, just this one
file. However, I have seen it before...I just never had to
deal with it (always had a backup that I could go to).
Also, I have seen this problem spontaneously disappear.
Right now though, it is persistent.
The HTML analogy is very apt. This is like your browser
working fine, but every time you go to a certain web page,
you see "View Source" HTML code instead of the rendering
of that page.
Also, this "code-like" file is much larger than when it
was healthy. It is very cumbersome to open/save/close.
At this point, my user can live without a solution, but I
am really curious and can't let this go.
Thanks,
Joe
 
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