Word 2003 not displaying all pages

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Mike Howells

I am experiencing the strangest problem.

Word seems to stop displaying text and won't scroll when I hit 5 pages of
text.

But, when I change my view to Normal mode I am able to find text beyond the
5 pages that the Print view was displaying.

Then, when I try to print my document it is only printing the first 5 pages
even though additional pages actually exist.

This is the most perplexing problem I have ever encountered with Word.

I tried a Detect and Repair but it does no good.

Is anybody else experiencing this problem?

Mike
 
Hi Mike,

I have been using Office 2003 through all of the betas and now with the
retail version and have never encountered this problem.

A couple of things to try check:

Under File>Page Stup, check the Vertical alignment of the page under the
Layout tab - should normally be set to Top.

Try renaming the normal.dot template and restart Word.

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Doug, thanks for the response.

I believe I actually found a bug in the Word program. When in Print Layout
view I only get 5 pages of my document. When in Normal Layout view I get all
of the pages of my document. The weird part is that when in Normal Layout I
get all of my pages but the page count still says 5/5.

Another strange bug I found is that when my document is open at the
beginning and I attempt to press Control-End the cursor just sits at the top
of the document.

It's the damndest thing.

Mike

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Is there a table involved? It's very easy, working in Print Layout view, to
accidentally nudge the table handle and make the table wrapped. A wrapped
table can't exceed one page, so it just goes on beyond the bottom of the
page ad infinitum. You can see it in Normal view but not in Print Layout. If
you do have a table on page 5, go to Table Properties | Table and make sure
the text wrapping is set to None. The same applies to any other floating
object: it can't exceed one page.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
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It actually does not have any tables in the document. At the end of Page 5/5
in Print Layout view it is just text pure and simple.

I tried doing a Detect and Repair, which did not work.

I also deleted normal.dot and started anew. Unfortunately, that did not
solve the problem either.

Even though the document was created with Word 2003 I also installed Word
2002 (XP) on another brand new machine and the document exhibits the same
behavior in Word 2002. This also happens on Word 2003 at home too on a third
machine.

I am utterly stumped.

Mike
 
Maybe the document is corrupt?

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 (click on ¶ to show marks) 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.

See this link for further info:

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

DM
 
Dayo, that did the trick!

I can't believe I didn't think of that. I guess I couldn't imagine what
would have corrupted the file. BTW, this seems to happen quite a bit so I
wonder what is interefering with Word's operation?

Again, thanks for all the help folks.

Mike
 
Glad that helped--if it happens a lot, can you track any conditions--e.g.,
inserting from a different program, notes, etc--that might be causing it?

Dayo
 
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