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by terry t.

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When a document is opened through the MSWord program itself, the document losses all fonts, formatting, etc and double/triple spaces making the document much longer then it normally would be. It also inserts anywhere from a page length to several page lengths, some kind of coding and sometimes, boxes between the words at the end of the document.

If you open up My Documents (or Documents through the Start) and open a document into the back door of MSWord all your fonts, formatting, etc are there.

Because of this, sometimes the printer doesn?t print.

All of this started when I went into Outlook to add some themes on the email. When MSWord started to act up, I ran a complete virus check and nothing was found. I then undid the themes I had put into Outlook, but MSWord didn?t change back, it was still acting weird.

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by ann777

Delete normal.dot and see if that helps. When this template file is corrupted, wierd things happen. Delete the file and Word will create a new one the next time you open it.

by dklippert

Look at Files of Type at the bottom of the open box. Make sure it says Word Documents, not Recover Text from any file.

Also as Anna suggests, delte/rename Normal.dot and delete any TMP files left by Word. They start with a tilde (~) you can delete any file that starts with ~
Also check Tools>Add-ins

You also might try starting Word on the Start>Run line with:

Winword.exe /a

Taht starts word with nothing added.

by terry t.

DKlippert,
Thanks for the answer ----

" Look at Files of Type at the bottom of the open box. Make sure it says Word Documents, not Recover Text from any file."

You were a big help!

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