I am translating a text in Word Document. After a while, I noticed that while the actual number of characters was higher, the number stalled at 1788 characters without spaces. In fact it should be around 5000 characters. Then I copied the text to another document and it still showed 1788 characters. Then I started to delete the paragraphs until it showed another character number, that is, less than the actual one. It went down to 1600 then when I added the deleted paragraphs it was once again stuck in 1788. I copied the deleted part to another page and it showed 0 character.

Afterwards I sent the file to a friend of mine, who told me that there were only 1788 characters and no more. She did not see the rest of the document, which appears as "0" character.

I tried to copy that part onto several pages but alas all pages showed 0 character. I tried to copy it in Whatsapp or Skype but there was nothing to paste. There were no copied parts so I could not paste any.

I am re-writing the "0 showing" paragraphs again because there is no other solution I could find. Has anyone heard of something like this? I fear that I will translate a huge file (1000 pages for example), send it to customer and she will tell me that the file is blank!

How are you doing the translation?
Manually or using Word or some other translation service?


How are you adding the text?
Typing? or Pasting?


By the way, I changed the title of your post. Everyone posting here has a big problem and the titles allow those responding to pick posts where they think they might have something to contribute.

(This is not a criticism of your post, everyone starts at the beginning.)

See How to post a question on this MSOffice forum

Thank you for Heads-up. When I was writing the post, I was actually panicked that I would lose my translation file so I nose-dived to the forum. I apologize.

I translate texts in a PC manually. x

I type as I continue to translate.

It is as if you paste a picture onto a word file page. You see the picture or graphic with contents on it but the actual character count is zero (0). It only appears as a picture so the Word does not count it. This is something like this.

Is anything being pasted into it?
Is this just one document?

Is this related to tracked revisions? Is the zero character chunk tracked as inserted or deleted text?

Are the characters in question written in English or is it the other language/typeface that is the issue?

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia