Word 97 Question

[MNGuy]

So, I write in Word 97. I'm used to it, and like it. Until recently.

But now, lately, a couple of times I get the error message that Word has encountered a problem and needs to shut down. My file is corrupted, and I have to restore from backup. I never had that problem before. It is happening with two files. Both are larger than anything I worked with before. One involved tables. I had about 25 tables, 4 columns and 16 rows, the other in a 600 page file. Is it because my files are getting to large and I need to break them up?

Anybody else have this problem?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I use Word 2000 so I can't give any specific help. However, the problem could be your computer, not Word. Adding some memory might be all that's needed. Then again, maybe not.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[mjl2010]

I use word 97. I've got a story thats 1.2 million words long and 1300 plus pages. It takes a few second to repaginate, but it does the job.

If those are the only two documents that cause a problem I'd look for something to do with those two documents.

Did you use a special template? Most documents use normal.dot. Maybe something happened with that. Try deleting it (normal.dot), start up word and write a few lines and save them. Keep a backup of course in case something happens.

The last suggestion is this. If a corruption in the documents is causing trouble then you'll have to find a way to fix it. Sorry can't help much there. If possible you might copy sections to a new document using copy and paste and put it all back together again.

If any document causes the problem, scan for viruses first. None found then reinstall.

MJL

 

[Weird Harold]

But now, lately, a couple of times I get the error message that Word has encountered a problem and needs to shut down. My file is corrupted, and I have to restore from backup. I never had that problem before. It is happening with two files. Both are larger than anything I worked with before. One involved tables. I had about 25 tables, 4 columns and 16 rows, the other in a 600 page file. Is it because my files are getting to large and I need to break them up?

I have had similar problems with very large files but it doesn't sound like your files are big enough to cause the kind of problem I encountered -- I'm talking about 500 MB files and bigger; the number of words or tables don't seem to make ny difference, just file size.

I think I'd start troubleshooting by running scandisk and defrag (or Norton's Disk Doctor and Speeddisk) to make sure that the two files aren't sitting on bad disk sectors.

 

[Guest]

So, I write in Word 97. I'm used to it, and like it. Until recently.

But now, lately, a couple of times I get the error message that Word has encountered a problem and needs to shut down. My file is corrupted, and I have to restore from backup. I never had that problem before. It is happening with two files. Both are larger than anything I worked with before. One involved tables. I had about 25 tables, 4 columns and 16 rows, the other in a 600 page file. Is it because my files are getting to large and I need to break them up?

Anybody else have this problem?

What is your operating system? ME did/does that in Word docs. It's how the memory is stored, maybe that's the case with yours? Does re-booting temporarily fix your problem? If it does, consider updating your operating system and adding memory. Memory is cheap.