I go to an online school. In the school's math classes, on occasion an assignment (saved as a .doc file) will have a problem. I always convert the file from .doc to .docx to take advantage of 2007's new features (the teachers all have either 2007/2010, however the assignments use the old doc extension, probably so people without the newer versions of word won't have compatibility problems). Sometimes when I am working on an assignment, when I save it (using the quick save to save my progress, I've already used the "save as" to convert it to docx format) the save as dialog box will pop up instead and it will act like it is a new file. When I try and save the document, it will save the file's name, however the file will be around 0 bytes in size and is corrupted (or maybe just non-existent considering the size) and then the save as dialog box will instantly pop up again and ask me to save it. Every time I try and save the document, it will just make an empty/corrupt file and try again. When I try and copy paste the info into a new document, a very strange thing will occur. Even though the entire document is copied, only the information that had been saved before the problem occurred will be pasted into the new document. It doesn't matter if I tell it to preserve formatting, use the new document's formatting, or to ignore formatting, the new data won't show up. At first I thought that it just wasn't copying the data however it will paste into notepad, just not MS word. However this won't work because I have to use word's equation editor for the assignments and when you lose the formatting, you lose the equation editor's formatting stuff which was the whole point of using docx in the first place. It would be too time consuming to use the old version of the equation editor and I have to use it.
PS: I use the equation editor in other classes and for personal stuff. This problem only occurs in the math classes' assignments, it never occurs elsewhere. I've run several different virus scans on both the converted and original files over the years and I've never gotten anything (malwarbytes, MSE, AVG, and one other scanner, forgot which one). I've also searched my computer manually (mostly using Microsoft's process explorer) for signs of infection and can't find anything to suggest a virus. This problem has occurred on 3 different computers running 3 different OS's (xp, vista, and 7) and has appeared in both Word 2003 (even though I wasn't converting file types back then) and Word 2007 and has been occurring several times a semester sense I joined
wava high school in the 9th grade (I'm now in 12th grade). Thanks for the help
PS: I have no idea if it is true or not, but I've heard rumors that the school might have used open office to create some of the assignments. Could that have caused the problem?
PS: Sometimes closing out of word and then reopening the offending document will cause the problem to disappear. The data will still be lost but I can re-enter the information and even complete the rest of the assignment without issue. However, sometimes the problem won't resolve it's self, copy-pasting the whole document into a new document just caused the new document to exibit the same problems as the original (regardless of whether I choose to keep the old formatting, use the new document's formatting, or ignore formatting). In that case, the only thing I can do is open both a new document and the offending document (I can read the old document just fine, it is only the saves that won't open, also simply looking at the old document won't cause the error to spread to new documents, I have to actually paste something from the old document into the new document for the error to spread) and transcribe everything by hand from the old document into the new one.
PS: I use the equation editor in other classes and for personal stuff. This problem only occurs in the math classes' assignments, it never occurs elsewhere. I've run several different virus scans on both the converted and original files over the years and I've never gotten anything (malwarbytes, MSE, AVG, and one other scanner, forgot which one). I've also searched my computer manually (mostly using Microsoft's process explorer) for signs of infection and can't find anything to suggest a virus. This problem has occurred on 3 different computers running 3 different OS's (xp, vista, and 7) and has appeared in both Word 2003 (even though I wasn't converting file types back then) and Word 2007 and has been occurring several times a semester sense I joined
wava high school in the 9th grade (I'm now in 12th grade). Thanks for the help
PS: I have no idea if it is true or not, but I've heard rumors that the school might have used open office to create some of the assignments. Could that have caused the problem?
PS: Sometimes closing out of word and then reopening the offending document will cause the problem to disappear. The data will still be lost but I can re-enter the information and even complete the rest of the assignment without issue. However, sometimes the problem won't resolve it's self, copy-pasting the whole document into a new document just caused the new document to exibit the same problems as the original (regardless of whether I choose to keep the old formatting, use the new document's formatting, or ignore formatting). In that case, the only thing I can do is open both a new document and the offending document (I can read the old document just fine, it is only the saves that won't open, also simply looking at the old document won't cause the error to spread to new documents, I have to actually paste something from the old document into the new document for the error to spread) and transcribe everything by hand from the old document into the new one.
