MIcrosoft Word document opens, has content, but opens blank page

I am running Word 7 on a Windows Vista-based computer.  I typed a document of 4 pages of search and saved (but not print).  Later, when I "opened", I've got was an empty document.  I tried a lot of things I could think of to fix this, but the best I could do was to open the file in Microsoft Wordpad.  Who produced a document unreadable, but I admit even that was somewhat satisfying!  I gave up after trying a couple of hours.

It was yesterday.  This morning, I tackled the problem once again, but the computer wouldn't boot.  I ran the routine of repair the computer asked me and got a response that the problem was unknown.  However, the computer did start the next time that I tried and it works perfectly except the Word document.

I was hoping that somehow this routine of repair had resolved my problem of empty document, but it does not.  Many of hours of research have been lost.  Anyone have any suggestions for me?  (P.S.  I did a full scan and no problems were detected.  Also, I made dozens or even hundreds of Word documents on this computer and never had any problems no matter what.)

Hello Bob-O-Link,

If you get a character 'A' then you not select properly. Keep your finger on the "shift" key while pressing the a button.

The characters you see are ASCII characters and the only thing I can think is that somehow, the document has become corrupted. If the document has become corrupted, and that the "repair" option is not fix it, then there is not a lot you can do about it, unfortunately. As you say other documents you have created are very well, so one can only assume that the file is damaged.

You could also post your problem in the Microsoft Office Word http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/word forum where you can get more help,

This forum post is my own opinion and does not necessarily reflect the opinion or the opinion of Microsoft, its employees or other MVPS.

John Barnett MVP: Windows XP Expert associated with: Windows Expert - consumer:www.winuser.co.uk | vistasupport.mvps.org | xphelpandsupport.mvps.org | www.silversurfer-Guide.com

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