[access-uk] Re: Corrupted Word files.
- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:33:27 +0100
Colin,
As a start I'd export it to a good old straightforward ASCII file,
perhaps with line breaks. This will get rid of some of the rubbish,
hopefully.
I think (so long as addresses are separated) I'd then work on taking out
all the ones you no longer need so that this shortens the file and
tidies it a little.
It may be worth looking around for a programme to strip out spurious
characters. I don't know them specifically myself.
HTH:
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Subject: [access-uk] Corrupted Word files.
Greetings,
Firstly, may I ask that before replying read this message all the way
through, thanks.
I have a situation where my telephone listing held as a Wordfile, has
become corrupted, I am not sure exactly when this occurred but it has
bits repeated, some with strange characters interspersed with the
information and about two thirds seem correct.
When I went to the States last year, I downloaded this along with all
the other files in the "my documents" hierarchy onto an external hard
disk, to date, I have not been able to retrieve this file which I
believe to be uncorrupted as I cannot get my machines correctly to "see"
the external hard disk in it's caddy.
Therefore, since I discovered this corruption only some couple or so
weeks after my return from the States, from that point on, any intended
modifications have been stored in a completely separate file.
What I wish to do is merge these files, removing the obvious bad
sections and then sorting the remaining lines so as to find duplicates
and changes. The problem is that many of the entries extend beyond a
single line. All entries are separated by two hard returns which, as
the file is over thirty pages long, include soft page breaks.
I suspect what I need to do is find a way of saving the text into an
ascii file, such that every entry is forced onto a single line, so that
then I can perform the sort.
Of course, once the sort has been performed, the blanks will be forced
to the top of the file and there need to be reinserted.
I want a reliable way and to know the codes for which I issue
find/replace, so that soft returns and soft page breaks are replaced by
space.
Please don't ask why the file is this way and say why didn't you do such
and such, it's a legacy file from the days of my good old Epson KeyNote
of 1988 vintage. I keep meaning to convert to some other format but
just have not as yet actioned my plan.
Thanks.
All the best
from:
Colin R. Howard.
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