Hi all.
The other day whilst in the throws of fixing another unrelated problem I came across a strange and annoying Word Document problem.
When I bought this word document up it present a very unusual icon. It was grayed out and part of the title contained a ~$ then the name of the document.
When I tried to open it, the word document only opened up to the gray page just before it should turn white displaying the text, and there it froze.
Nothing worked after that! The freeze was so bad that the only way to close the window was to turn the computer off at the tower.
After rebooting I tried it again 2 more times with the same problem freeze occurring in the Word document.
Today I again found another document that caused the same problem, this time the icon for that document was normal but right beside this icon was another malformed grayed out ~$(name) icon.
When I tried to open either of the 2 icons I got the same freezing up problem, just as before.
I tried a previously suggested step in that I opened "Word" and from there navigated to where the bad files were located.
In turn I only hi-lighted each, and at the bottom of that window clicked on the arrow for the drop down box.
I was advised that one of the presented options was to repair the file. No such option was present. :4-dontkno
So there you have it. Any advice on this problem please?
Regards
The other day whilst in the throws of fixing another unrelated problem I came across a strange and annoying Word Document problem.
When I bought this word document up it present a very unusual icon. It was grayed out and part of the title contained a ~$ then the name of the document.
When I tried to open it, the word document only opened up to the gray page just before it should turn white displaying the text, and there it froze.
Nothing worked after that! The freeze was so bad that the only way to close the window was to turn the computer off at the tower.
After rebooting I tried it again 2 more times with the same problem freeze occurring in the Word document.
Today I again found another document that caused the same problem, this time the icon for that document was normal but right beside this icon was another malformed grayed out ~$(name) icon.
When I tried to open either of the 2 icons I got the same freezing up problem, just as before.
I tried a previously suggested step in that I opened "Word" and from there navigated to where the bad files were located.
In turn I only hi-lighted each, and at the bottom of that window clicked on the arrow for the drop down box.
I was advised that one of the presented options was to repair the file. No such option was present. :4-dontkno
So there you have it. Any advice on this problem please?
Regards