Page madness

[Peter]

Help, help, help!!!

Word 2002 on XP

I am writing an essay, which should be about 9 pages by now, and includes a
numbers of images. I pasted some tect from another file and suddenly the
essay went mad with a page count at the bottom going on forever. Last time
I closed the file it was reaching the 10,000 mark and still counting.

I have important information there and need to retrieve the file. What can
I do? It appears to me that whatever I pasted could not be read properly
and Word can't find the end of it.

Help...

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Eternal repagination is a sign of a corrupt document.

The first way to check for a corrupt document is to
copy the entire thing, *excluding* the last paragraph mark, into a new
document. That last paragraph mark holds a lot of information which can get
corrupted, and copying the text into a document with a fresh one keeps your
formatting, but can fix some glitches.

A paragraph mark is a ¶. Click on ¶ on the standard toolbar to show
nonprinting characters, including paragraph marks.

If that doesn't work, try the other fixes listed at this link:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm