I'm using Word 2000 (yeah, I know, old). I've got a document that has text and graphics. The document should be 19 pages. When I try to rearrange one of the graphic images on a page, the page count suddenly starts growing into the thousands. If I scroll to the bottom, it keeps growing further. I can't find the rest of the text or graphics, although I know it's all there somewhere. Closing without saving and reopening the file doesn't make a difference.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

I've never had this happen with graphics, but this did happen to me when I had formatted a table for the rows to break across pages and the table text paragraph style to "Keep with Next." Those settings didn't play nice with each other, and so many pages were generated that the document actually blew out the computer's swap file. Could it be that you have accidentally applied some conflicting settings to something related to your graphics?

Janchan

Hi Bob,

That suggests the document has serious corruption. A simple solution in most cases is to:
• insert a new empty paragraph right at the end of the document
• copy everything except that new empty paragraph and paste it into a new document
• close the old document
• save the new document over the old document.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Very sorry for the delay in responding. Been tied up with some other things and computer was in the shop for some maintenance.

Thanks for the replies. I tried copying and pasting, without inserting a new paragraph, before I'd seen your reply Paul. It worked till I started trying to move some of the graphics around then the same thing happened. I eventually managed to get it to work by inserting some carriage returns and hard page breaks. The formatting is ugly but it at least seems stable.... for now.