Word 2000: Document may be corrupt

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Audiohead

When I open some documents, a message is displayed that "Document may be
corrupt...". However, the documents load OK. What's the matter and are there
any simple ways (aside from copying and pasting into a new document) to stop
these messages?
TIA
 
B

Beth Melton

No, not really unless you find the source of corruption.

The fact that creating a new document rectifies the problem indicates
there was corruption found in the document and if you disregard the
warning at some point it could prevent you from opening the document.

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Mark Irvine

I have has this issue on a large document (160 pages). The document opens OK and all the text appears OK although some of the links and bookmarks within it are corrupt. I have followed the advice to copy all the information into another document, the issue still remains. Is there an easy way to identify where the issue is?

TIA,

Mark

----- Beth Melton wrote: -----

No, not really unless you find the source of corruption.

The fact that creating a new document rectifies the problem indicates
there was corruption found in the document and if you disregard the
warning at some point it could prevent you from opening the document.

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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Ian D

I have the same issue - see MD Knowledge Based Articles
164458 and 237274; I've not yet sorted my probs though!
-----Original Message-----
I have has this issue on a large document (160 pages).
Click to expand...
The document opens OK and all the text appears OK although
some of the links and bookmarks within it are corrupt. I
have followed the advice to copy all the information into
another document, the issue still remains. Is there an
easy way to identify where the issue is?
 
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ezgator

I have had the same issues with my documents (over 900 pages). The originals were written in Word on Windows NT. My computer has since been upgraded to Windows 2000 and I am now using Word 2000. The same "may be corrupt" message appears whenever I would open one of these documents. I have been able to eliminate this error by transferring the document to another computer running Windows XP (don't remember what Word version) and opening the file. I then resave the file to another file name, transfer it back to my Windows 2000 machine and all "may be corrupt" error message are now gone. From what I have reviews the contents look fine (although I haven't done an exact comparison between old and new)
 
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Andre Da Costa

Enter Word 2000, go to File > Open > (Files of Type), select Recover Text
from Any File, and select the document thats giving problems and open.

Andre Da Costa
Jamaica W.I.
 
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