Drawing Canvas and Corruption

[Barb R.]

I'm wondering if anyone has seen issues with corruption in Word documents
that contain a Drawing Canvas (or multiple canvases) with many objects within
the Drawing Canvas.

Thanks in advance.

Barb Reinhardt

 

[pstatham]

Yes. I am seeing exactly this. Please the post I just made with subject "Two
big problems. Please help!" Please let me know if you figure it out.

-Perry

 

[pstatham]

Here is the URL to my post about this problem.

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...hics&mid=d953996b-5328-4d24-9818-57df41bd61f6

-Perry

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Barb,

Your previous posts mentioned using Master Documents,
versioning and other features that have historical
'hair pulling' power from Word when it comes to corruption.

Complex groupings of objects in the Drawing canvas can
add to that load. One symptom in a prior posting was
that the ability to select multiple objects worked/
didn't work in different sessions? It could be a
graphics resource (not memory) limitation.

As I recall, you said you weren't able to change
any of the methods used in document creation for these
documents. Were the folks in the Formatting Long
Documents newsgroup able to offer any additional
suggestions?

Were you successful in any of the previously
mentioned possible methods for recovering damaged
files or from http://word.mvps.org in recovering
a damaged Master document?

Can the graphics be created externally (MS Office Visio
or a dedicated graphics package) then linked or inserted
into Word after creation? That would reduce the complex
structure that multiple object drawing canvases can bring
into play.

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I'm wondering if anyone has seen issues with corruption in Word documents
that contain a Drawing Canvas (or multiple canvases) with many objects within
the Drawing Canvas.

Thanks in advance.

Barb Reinhardt >>

 

[Barb R.]

Complex groupings of objects in the Drawing canvas can
add to that load. One symptom in a prior posting was
that the ability to select multiple objects worked/
didn't work in different sessions? It could be a
graphics resource (not memory) limitation.

I've chatted with the originator of these documents and the versions will be
going away. We also are going to investigate what needs to be done to get
rid of the Master Document as well, but that may take a bit more time.

As I recall, you said you weren't able to change
any of the methods used in document creation for these
documents. Were the folks in the Formatting Long
Documents newsgroup able to offer any additional
suggestions?

I haven't had a chance to follow up with them at this time. How do I get
to that newsgroup from the web interface?

Were you successful in any of the previously
mentioned possible methods for recovering damaged
files or from http://word.mvps.org in recovering
a damaged Master document?

I've been able to "Open and Repair" the documents, but haven't had a chance
to review the mvps.org postings. It appears that the graphics are generally
what's repaired when I have to open and repair.

Can the graphics be created externally (MS Office Visio
or a dedicated graphics package) then linked or inserted
into Word after creation? That would reduce the complex
structure that multiple object drawing canvases can bring
into play.

Now that's an idea, but I don't have access to Visio at this site. There
are maybe 5-10 different people accessing the documents so they'd all have to
have access to this package. I'll mention it to the originator when we chat
again.

Thanks for your feedback.

Barb Reinhardt