musical notes displayed in Word (offic 2003)

[IMK]

Hello,
I have been sent a Word document as an attachement to an email from a
reliable source however when I open this Word documnet it is full of musical
notes.
I have spent days trying to sort it out to the point were I have met with
the sender and they have put the document on a CD for me but when I open it
in my PC (XP Pro SP3) it still is full of musical notes. Also as this
Document is from a Public Office it has been sent to many other and as far as
I know it is fine for them.

I have received many Word docs files from many sources and they all open
find, I also create many Word docs and send them to other and they are all
fine.

It is just this one doc from this one source that I can not read in my PC, I
feel sure this problem is it my PC but I can find what the problem.

As a last resort I just removed Office 2003 from my system, flushed the
registry, scanned for spyware and viruses. Re install office and I still have
the same problem.

Any ideas please IMK

 

[MartinW]

Hi,

First up this is an Excel group, you would be much better
served posting in a Word newsgroup.

Having said that I'll take a guess that your musical notes are
in fact Paragraph marks.

In my Word 2000 they can be turned off by going to
Tools>Options>View Tab and uncheck Paragraph marks
in the Formatting Marks section.

It should be something similar in 2003.

HTH
Martin

 

[GMR]

I have recently had the identical experience -- a Word document from a
reliable source on disc that when I open appears as musical notes. I can
read the text by opening it in in Notepad but the document does not have
formatting, titles, headings etc.
Did you get a solution>

 

[Bruce Sinclair]

I have recently had the identical experience -- a Word document from a
reliable source on disc that when I open appears as musical notes. I can
read the text by opening it in in Notepad but the document does not have
formatting, titles, headings etc.
Did you get a solution>

Is it a font problem ? If you select all then format font (use, say, times
new roman) do you then see the text again ?
There are music notes fonts out there ... and maybe if you don't have the
font that the doc you are having trouble with uses, it might be defaulting
to something odd ?

HTH

 

[IAfarmer]

In article <[email protected]>, =?Utf-8?B?R01S?= <[email protected]> wrote:
>I have recently had the identical experience -- a Word document from a
>reliable source on disc that when I open appears as musical notes. I can
>read the text by opening it in in Notepad but the document does not have
>formatting, titles, headings etc.
>Did you get a solution>

Is it a font problem ? If you select all then format font (use, say, times
new roman) do you then see the text again ?
There are music notes fonts out there ... and maybe if you don't have the
font that the doc you are having trouble with uses, it might be defaulting
to something odd ?

HTH



>"IMK" wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have been sent a Word document as an attachement to an email from a
>> reliable source however when I open this Word documnet it is full of musical
>> notes.
>> I have spent days trying to sort it out to the point were I have met with
>> the sender and they have put the document on a CD for me but when I open it
>> in my PC (XP Pro SP3) it still is full of musical notes. Also as this
>> Document is from a Public Office it has been sent to many other and as far as
>
>> I know it is fine for them.
>>
>> I have received many Word docs files from many sources and they all open
>> find, I also create many Word docs and send them to other and they are all
>> fine.
>>
>> It is just this one doc from this one source that I can not read in my PC, I
>> feel sure this problem is it my PC but I can find what the problem.
>>
>> As a last resort I just removed Office 2003 from my system, flushed the
>> registry, scanned for spyware and viruses. Re install office and I still have
>
>> the same problem.
>>
>> Any ideas please IMK
>>
>>

I was having the same issue. Bruce's suggestion to change the font to Times New Roman seems to have fixed the problem. Thank you.