However, something much worse has happened now. The first couple of times, I got the original document back and it seemed to work fine until I tried to italicize again. Suddenly when I tried to highlight and italicize a word (which I had been doing all along), the Word doc just hung. I was on page 9 or so out of a 17-page Word doc. I had added comments to the margins, just page numbers referring to the original. I had them both open along with Safari with several windows open.
pdf file (a downloaded Google book) in a Word document.
I am using Mac OS X 10.5.8 and Word 2004 version 11.5.5 (I thought I had 2003, I’m peeved now) and today I was revising a text that I translated from a large. I love your site, it has saved me so many times. Hopefully this will get you back your missing prose! Theoretically it should have vanished, but it’s still there and I was able to recover it.
The text from “Dave Taylor says:” to the bottom of the page was all deleted from the file, then the file was saved to disk. When I deleted some text from my test file and did this procedure, here’s what I saw: In the middle of it, however, you should be able to find all your missing text. Click “OK” and you’ll see lots of junk, typographical notations, and other miscellany. There are lots of choices, but I’ve highlighted the one you want: Recover Text from Any File. Now open up the file with the missing text and you’ll be asked if you want to use a converter: Select the Confirm conversion at Open option (it’s right by the mouse cursor) and click “OK”.
In Microsoft Office XP, that’s done by creating a blank document (so you can get to the Options preference, otherwise it’s grayed out), then selecting Tools –> Options and clicking on the General tab. What you need to do is enable document conversion on open.
Now, the challenge is how to access that data. You’ll find that the new version of the file, the version that has all the archival data purged, is often dramatically smaller than the original. One way you can see that this is the case is by doing a “Save As…” on a document you’ve been editing for a while. Find, in a Word Document on a Mac brings up a pop-up window for you to type in your desired search word(s).You might not realize it, but Microsoft Word actually keeps somewhat of a history of your document in the file, even when it looks like there’s nothing there and even when you have revision tracking turned off.
It has the same features as Word and is compatible with it.Ĭommand f, i.e. Note: If the document above looks slightly different from yours, I use Open Office, a Free program, on my PC. When you click on Control f to search for words or phrases in a document a pop-up window opens up. Next edit what’s there or type in your new word.įinally, when you are satisfied that you have the word or phrase you wish, highlight and “Copy” that (Control or Command “c”) Then Paste it over the one you wish to replace. Then use Control or Command “x” to delete it. To make replacement changes, when you find the word remember to highlight it.
Or you can use the keyboard shortcut, the Control Key plus the letter “f” on a PC or the Command Key, plus the letter “f” on a Mac. First, open your document and click on the Edit link in the tool bar. It’s simply to use the “Find” or Search feature within your computer. Well, there is an easy cure for that anxiety. You’re pretty sure you have and you may still be left with some doubts. Did you ever find yourself wanting to correct or replace a word, or phrase, that you’ve used more than once in a Word document? You go searching through the pages, hoping that your eyes caught them all.