Pagination running wild

[Rob]

I have created a document using MS Word in Office 2000. I used Print Layout
as I built the 300 page document. Now when I open it, it runs away and
builds more than 2000 pages. When I am able to switch to Normal Vew I can
see all the original pages of the document, but there still are thousands of
pages within that document. The same is true for Outline View.

How can I turn off the switch that is building all these extra pages?

Thank you for your help.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

This is commonly a sign that your document is corrupt. See here:

One easy way to fix some corrupt documents 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.

See this link for further fixes, if that does not work.

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

DM