Missing text in doucment

[segovia123]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I have a 17,000 word "MS Word" document with extensive use of tables in the document. Text regularly disappears from the pages , especially near page breaks. If I open the the same document on an XP machine the document and text is OK. It is getting to the point now were my MAC and MS Word for MAC is unusable. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. John

 

[Rob Schneider]

Is it disappearing from the view, e.g. sometimes in print preview view
the screen doesn't refresh that quickly.

I guess what I'd do is use draft view, to reduce the computing power
required, and get the document broken up into smaller individual files
(copy from sections into new document). Do all that a Windows version
of Word on XP where you see it all. Then use the smaller documents in Mac.

And, tables are pretty complicated things behind the scenes requiring
sometimes a lot of computing power. Is the use of tables "too
extensive"? After you get the doc broken into smaller parts, perhaps
look a the tables and see if you can simplify. (I once had a an
experience helping someone with Word for Windows 2.0 where they had a
table that extended on for 35 or so pages, as I remember. The 386
machine was *very* slow rendering that huge table).

You don't say what version of Word you have (on Windows or Mac). For the
Mac where you are having the problem, suggest you make sure you have the
latest with all updates applied.

--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[segovia123]

Hi

I have a high spec Imac, 3.06 4GB of DDR3 memory with the latest version of office 2008 with all updates applied. I am sure if I broke the document down it would solve my problem or I could write off £2,000.00 worth of investment in my iMAC and go back to my 5 year old slow PC which handles the job fine (;-) John

 

[Rob Schneider]

I didn't say anything of the sort. Good luck.


--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[John McGhie]

Hi John:

Chances are, that's hidden Tracked Changes.

Resolve all the tracked changes in the document and I suspect it will burst
back into life.

The limits for Word 2008 are well above 17,000 words (it's up around
3,600,000 words).

The thing that slows Word documents down is "complexity" not "size". Tables
add complexity, but not that much: but tracked changes, cross-references,
and footnotes add massive complexity.

The main offender is likely to be the tracked changes.

Remove all the tracked changes and Maggie the document and it should burst
back into life.

The Maggie:

1. Create a new blank document
2. Carefully select all of the text in the bad document EXCEPT the last
paragraph mark
3. Copy it.
4. Paste in the new document.
5. Save under a new file name and close all, then re-open.

This technique for de-corrupting is known as "Doing a 'Maggie'", after
Margaret Secara from the TECHWR-L mailing list, who first publicised the
technique.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
I have a 17,000 word "MS Word" document with extensive use of tables in the
document. Text regularly disappears from the pages , especially near page
breaks. If I open the the same document on an XP machine the document and text
is OK. It is getting to the point now were my MAC and MS Word for MAC is
unusable. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. John

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[Keith Driver]

OK, A bunch of us have what is probably the same problem here in our
office. We all have mac laptops, mine is a intel 2009 powerbook. No
shortage of CPU cycles.

When using Word 2008, even starting up small new documents, as you
scroll around you get disappearing text neAr headings. If you select
the area with the mouse the text comes back, but it is immensely
frustrating.

See a screen video capture here (http://screencast.com/t/ZjhjZDEwM )

Since its on a number of macs of varying vintage I think the problem
is with Word?

 

[segovia123]

>
> OK, A bunch of us have what is probably the same problem here in our
> office. We all have mac laptops, mine is a intel 2009 powerbook. No
> shortage of CPU cycles.
>
> When using Word 2008, even starting up small new documents, as you
> scroll around you get disappearing text neAr headings. If you select
> the area with the mouse the text comes back, but it is immensely
> frustrating.
>
> See a screen video capture here (http://screencast.com/t/ZjhjZDEwM )
>
> Since its on a number of macs of varying vintage I think the problem
> is with Word?
> Yes it is Word not the hardware, I have escalated this to Microsoft who are currently looking at my document, if I get a satisfactory answer I will post the result. John

 

[segovia123]

Yes it is Word not the hardware, I have escalated this to Microsoft who are currently looking at my document, if I get a satisfactory answer I will post the result. John

 

[segovia123]

Hi Keith

A good example of the problem, well doen for posting. I will send the link to Microsoft.

John

 

[Keith Driver]

Hi Keith
A good example of the problem, well doen for posting. I will send the link to Microsoft.
John

Thanks John. Keep me posted if you can. I can manufacture more
screencaps too if needed.

Keith

 

[CyberTaz]

Not meant to contradict at all, just additional info FWIW... I'm not sure
this is exclusively an issue with Word 2008.

I'm running it on an old G5 Dual 2GHz in Tiger 10.4.11 and although I've
seen similar occurrences they are quite infrequent & never to the extreme
illustrated in your video. When it does occur it's nothing more than what
appears to be a row of pixels running through the affected text, almost like
a white strikethrough.

On my MBP running Snow Leopard I haven't noticed it occurring at all.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[segovia123]

From Microsoft

To achieve this:

1) Select the complete table

2) Go to Table in the menu bar and choose Table Properties

3) Under the Table Tab you will see Text Wrapping

4) Select None

5) Choose OK

Perform the above steps on each table within the document and then you can apply your page numbers without issue.

Please let me know if this addresses your issue.

 

[segovia123]

Answer form M/s

To achieve this:

1) Select the complete table

2) Go to Table in the menu bar and choose Table Properties

3) Under the Table Tab you will see Text Wrapping

4) Select None

5) Choose OK

Perform the above steps on each table within the document and then you can apply your page numbers without issue.

Please let me know if this addresses your issue.