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Are you familiar with macros? I think this will be the most likely solution for your situation.

My rule of thumb when copying and pasting from one Word document to another is to use Paste Special, unformatted text. This will strip all formatting from the document the text is being copied from and paste it to the style of the paragraph in the document requiring this text. If this is something that is done frequently, you may want to build yourself a macro, as follows:

Sub PasteSpecialUnformatted()
Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteText, Placement:= _
wdInLine, DisplayAsIcon:=False
End Sub

By any chance would the items which you are attempting to archive have the Properties “Do Not Archive” set? Open the e-mail and choose File, Properties… see attached picture…

Glad to hear this option works for you!

Yes, it appears that this is still a problem with media files… looks like they created an add-in to resolve the solution… check it out… MSKB 883519

Hi Ed… found this site which looks like it might do the trick for you! http://www.andreavb.com/forum/viewtopic_4396.html%5B/url%5D

Enjoy… trish

Hi Diana… did you use styles in your table? If not, an option ‘Keep Track of Formatting’ may be the culprit. Try turning this option (new to 2002) off (Tools, Options, Edit tab) and see if the saving improves. This option tracks all the direct formatting on each paragraph in a document which may be causing the issue.

If this does not work, I also found a MSKB Office files that are saved to a network drive take an unexpectedly long time to save in Word, Excel, Powerpoint 2002 and 2003 which identifies Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7x and a solution.

Hope one of these help out!! trish

Hi Colin… not sure of any registry and never had the pleasure of owning/using two monitors, but there is a little known feature with Outlook that will open two windows when launched. Maybe you would find this helpful.

If you right-click on the Inbox and choose Open in New Window and customize the new window to turn off the Navigation pane and make the Inbox area as small as possible, you would then have mostly a reading pane displaying. Choose File, Exit from the menu – do not click on the x to close the application. The next time you launch Outlook, it will open both windows. Most people I show this to, usually want to launch their Inbox and Calendar at the same time.

Hope this helped… trish

Hi Angie… there does not seem to be a lot written on the differences between Word 2000 and Word 2003, but lots of grumbles… here’s a search on google for Word 2000 tables in Word 2003.

Frustrated Word Table Users – Word 2000 to 2003

As you can see, there are many frustrated people out there… my knowledge of Word is fairly good (however, everyday I still seem to discover new things!). With my experience, I recreate old Word 2000 tables with the new Word 2003 and create my own styles within. In Word 2000, people tended to use the Normal style in the table – Word 2003 does not like this for unknown reasons – it prefers the Table Grid style and I have found my documents give me the “your document is corrupt due to a table….”. Ensure that you use this Table Grid style and create new styles based on it – this should resolve most of your problems – I know it seems like a lot of work – however, it should get better.

I have read that turning the compatibility option (Tools, Options, Compatibility): Use Word 2002 Table Style Rules may help. I don’t like to play with the compatibility but, instead, fix the existing problem!!!

Hope this helped a bit… trish

I have attached a MS KB on troubleshooting the Cached Exchange Mode: 1. This client is on an Exchange Server? 2. Group Policy restricted usage? or 3. Microsoft Terminal Services has been installed.

You could also insert this information into the header/footer and it would appear on every new page created.

Ooops… guess I should look at the version… in Outlook 2000, if I remember correctly, Profiles live under Tools, Services or you should see the Show Profiles on the Services Tab http://support.microsoft.com/kb/195718/en-us%5B/url%5D . If not, maybe this is wherein the problem lies… try creating a profile for the individual… who knows!!

Hope this helps!!

Thanx for your feedback… here’s the process that I am trying to accomplish

I created a report in BusinessObjects that feeds to an Excel spreadsheet via VBA. The merge is for a purchase/sale agreement approximately 40 pages long, using Words Headings 1-9 with numbering. Only one row of information is queried in BO and merged to this document. Through many of the clauses, cross-references are created in order to add/delete any new material. We found out the hard way that after the merge process, the new document strips the cross-references. Unfortunately, edits are still required to this document after-the-fact and even the information merged could potentially change throughout the life cycle of the agreement until a final is agreed upon.

Your idea sounds very interesting; however, I think there is approx 150 cross-references in the document… I’m going think about this a little more… I’m sure you will here back from me in the near future…!!

As always, Hans, you point me in the right direction – I tend to get lost in the forest every once in a while… thanx for all your support throughout the years!

When you refer to placeholder – do you mean something like a macrobutton field?

Thanx so much… trish

Try one more thing to eliminate other causes… copy the entire document and paste it into a new blank document using Paste Special, unformatted text… then see if some pages will print? This will clean all corrupt code in the document – however, any formatting will be lost…

Are you using styles in the document? Word can become corrupt if there is too much direct formatting (putting formatting on top of the normal style), as well as empty paragraph markers (pressing enter twice to start a new paragraph)… for any repeatitive formatting, these items should be stored in a style, not each paragraph marker. All of this direct formatting in very large documents usually causes corruption.

Let me know if I can help out anymore… good luck… trish