Help

I received the above message error in title, I was trying to add page numbers to a large document, cannot do this to any documents I have but was able to a few days ago. Cannot edit documents, add images, etc. Is the template corrupt, or something? Stumped.

Did some research, said to delete normal.dot file in template subfolder, there were two of them. Said Word would recreate it when restarted. It didn't.



I see there is some protection ideas to be changed in registry, I can do that, but have not yet. Figured I'd wait for some other options. Can reload Office, it was preinstalled on HD, have User code. Not sure how to do that, it should be in the archive partition on HD I think, options here to.

Windows 10 64 bit
MS Word Home and Student Version 10.

Have not tried anything in Excel or other MS apps. Just Word so far.

thanks for any help.

Greg

Do not change anything in the registry based on something you read that is not addressed specifically to you.

Corruption in your document is more likely than in the template.

It would likely be the file normal.dotm.

Can you edit any documents?

How to Find the Normal Template
Page numbering /header / footer problems Word 2007 - 2016

No to page numbering, adding images, yes to changing text etc.

Can you type the word 'Page', select it and press Ctrl-F9 and then F9? If so, there is your page number.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Page numbering /header / footer problems Word 2007 - 2016
The above link is for when there are no choices under Insert Page Number. (It deals with other kinds of building blocks as well.)