Up to Word Application Errors
Errors affecting entire application
Individual document errors
- “Page X of Y” displays or prints as “Page 1 of 1
- Cross-references show incorrect content or wrong numbers
- Formatting applied to one paragraph affects the entire document
- Whenever I open a document all my formatting is gone
- Text at the top of the page is unaccountably indented
- GoBack (Shift+F5) doesn't work in some newly-opened documents
- Mirror margins don't work in a multisection document
- Recovering a corrupt document or template
- Recovering a Master Document
- Word is always making changes I don't expect
- Graphics have turned into red X's
- Captions don't update and don't appear in Table of Figures
- Graphics don't appear or won't print
- Table cells with shading show white areas
- Positioning floating objects
- Floating objects in tables are wrongly aligned vertically
- Linked floating graphics don't show up in Edit Links
- Layout changes on a different computer
- { =SUM(ABOVE) } answer was obviously incorrect
- Mail merge field names have an underscore appended to them [Lene Fredborg, 10-Jan-2020: Removed outdated link to http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/]
- Problems with StyleRef fields and language-specific style names
Macros/VBA/VB errors

Whenever I open a document using File Open all my formatting is gone, and there is garbage at the end

But the document looks fine if I open it from the list at the bottom of the File menu or double-click on it in Windows Explorer

Article contributed by Suzanne S. Barnhill

For an updated version of this article, see http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/RecoverText.htm.