Strange performance when re-opening docs.

[Ron S]

Word 2000 9.06926 SP3. Last week when I started opening existing word docs,
I noticed 1 to 2 pages of extra text inserted at the end of the document that
seem to contain information about the document. These typically start with
“Normalâ€, “Normal†and end with “Microsoft Word Documentâ€, “MSWordDocâ€,
“Word.Document.8â€. It seems that all of the original formatting is gone and
just the typed text of the original document is there. If I delete the extra
lines of text, and go to save, I am prompted that the document will save in
Word Format. I tried a few times getting a new normal.dot file, but it
doesn’t seem to fix it. Experimenting, I discovered that if a file opens
with the extra words at the end and formatting not in place, I just need to
close the document and then re-open it and it is then fine. What is going
on?.

 

[Ron S]

To clarify - if I open a document from the bottom of the file command list it
is fine. If I open it from the open command, it is not. Really confused.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Classic case of "Recover Text from Any File." See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/RecoverText.htm

 

[Alynn]

I suddenly started having the same problem.
Alynn

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In the File Open dialog, change the file type from "Recover Text from Any
File" to "All Word Documents."