FORMATTING ALL GONE

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D Small

This might help someone. This week, no matter what Word document I opened,
absolutely all formatting was gone, hyperlinks were labeled as hyperlinks, but
in plain text, no underlining, etc., and it was as though all formatting (text)
(paragraph) (hyperlinks) (margins) was reduced to plain text, even worse than in
Notepad.

I just spent the last two hours going through all the menus, options -
everything and finally noticed the problem.

A week ago I needed to open a difficult file as "Recover text from any file."
Apparently, the File Of Type box did not change from that, back to where it
usually is, "Files of Type: All Word Documents."

Once I returned the Files of Type box to its default "All Word Documents" I can
now open my formatted documents and once again, they look grand!
 
Hi D Small,

Fortunately in later versions of Word, that method of opening documents is
not "sticky".

Sometimes the developers do listen <g>

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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