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by tlholmes1004

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I am working in a large document that was mostly cut and pasted from another document.

For some reason the document will randomly add blank pages to the document whenever I try to delete pages and if I add one page, it adds multiple pages. At onepoint it added over 3000 pages, until it ran out of memory. We took a look at the pages and it seems the header took up the entire page, and we couldn't resize it. (I don't know if that was relevant to the problem or not, but it was an observation.)

I also am having problems with a few of my styles not obeying commands (such as page break before) and some of them are not resetting when it comes to numbering. Is this connected to my other problem?

What can I do to fix this without losing my document?

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by expansus

... the problem could be caused by control commands pasted during the composing process...

... but is it Word 2000 you talk about?

One way I use sometimes is to mark up the whole text and copy it to a new document (Paste as Text only! withoutformatting). Depending the text structure this could mean you have to re-format the whole text in the final application, but this way you don't loose the text itself.

And from what kind of application the text is originally copied?

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