Word 2007 Document not opening as saved.

[Gsnake]

I have a laptop that has Vista on it and I did something in Word 2007 and
saved it to my usb portable stick drive. When I went later and put the usb
drive in to bring up my document it doesn't open up properly. There are two
documents I'm having problems with, one when I open it at the bottom where it
shows how many pages the document is it says 800+ pages which is obviously
not correct and the other shows 4,000+ pages. Now the one document is longer
than the other but obviously not as long as it saying it is. I noticed the
first so many pages there is nothing there and then when I do get to a page
with something on it it does have I believe some of what was saved along with
a bunch of other characters and just a bunch of other stuff that shouldn't be
there. I do believe in all those pages what I saved is there scattered about
but I don't know what happened and what to do to get it to open as I saved
it. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks Glenn

 

[Graham Mayor]

Saving directly to removable media is a frequent source of document
corruption. Always work from the hard drive and COPY to and from the
removable media. If Open & Repair doesn't fix it (and it probably won't)
open what you have and copy anything salvageable to a new document.

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[Gsnake]

Hi Graham, thanks for the info. The actual sequence of how it was saved is
the document was done on a work computer and then I saved it to my portable
usb drive. Then when I was home I put my usb portable drive into my laptop
to open the document to work on it more but as said in previous post it was
corrupt in some way. I talked to someone in the IT department and she said
she thought it was something to do with the virus protection program. She
said her documents were doing the samething and that virus program does
something to keep documents from saving properly. She doesn't know why it's
happeneing but is trying to fix it. Is that something that could happen or
is it like you said that there is just sometimes corruption when saving
documents to removable storage and is copying to removable storage the best
way to save? Thanks for any insight you can give.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

With or without interference from AV, much the best policy is always to save
to the hard drive, copy to the flash drive, then copy from the flash drive
to the hard drive before working on the file. Never save directly to the
flash drive, much less open directly from it.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org