First thing to find out. Is this an issue with (a) this document, (b) this users settings (Word) and profile (Windows) or (c) this Word on this computer.
- You can find out if it's (a) by seeing how a copy from your backup behaves. Be sure to make it read-only on the backup or copy it first. You wouldn't want to corrupt you only good copy!
- You can find out if it's (b) by opening the same document (and the backup copy) in a new Windows account on the same PC. If that works, you can try to delete normal.dot, but that won't help if it's something else that is corrupted.
- You can find out if it's (c) by opening the document (and the backup copy) on another PC. If that's the case, try reinstalling Word.
Kees
Hey folks,
I have a document with almost 40 pictures, each of which has a caption in a text box grouped with the picture. Today I opened up my document to discover that for every single one of these, the numbers of the captions were missing, i.e. "Picture 2: A potato" became "Picture : A potato".
I should make it clear that the fields are still there:
?By right-clicking just before the colon, I get "Update field", "edit field", and "Toggle field codes" as options, and when I go into "edit field" the field code appears correct;
?All cross-references in the document referring to these captions have their numbers intact, even after manual updating;
?Adding a new caption to the end of the document comes up as it should, "Picture 39"
?Copying and pasting "Picture :" into a different place in the document causes the number to reappear, so long as it's not being pasted into one of the affected text boxes.
Hitting Alt+F9 (after the text box has been ungrouped from the accompanying picture, of course) doesn't give me the field codes, however: those, too, are invisible. New fields of any type that are added to the affected text boxes are also invisible. Field codes added to new text boxes are, however, perfectly fine.
Now, I could obviously separate each of the text boxes from its picture, create new captions in new text boxes under each picture, and manually copy-paste the text of each caption into the text box once again. But life is short as it is, and I don't have any guarantee that when I reopen the file tomorrow the numbers in the new text boxes won't have all turned invisible once again.
Anybody know what's going on and how to fix it?
Thanks,
Daniel

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