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Hello all,

I've found something strange today:

I've opened one of my word files and all the titles were messed up.

See this ImageShack picture[^].

Tried to create new documents based on the same template and it works properly.

If I copy the contents from the document that is not working properly into that newly created one from the same template it seems to work, and after saving it to disk and reopening those black squares appear again.

After searching the Internet a little looking for black squares and titles in word nothing interesting appear even several people asked for that and solutions have been suggested.

In my case, if I put the cursor on a title line and move it using the keyboard to the left until the title number gets greyed, and reapply the style it changes back to the number it should be (and not the square). If I save the document and reopen it again the black square reappears...

:(

Any idea?

I truly would not like to re-write the entire titles in a new file I'm speaking of a big manual which would take several hours to re-type/copy/paste...

As always thank you in advance :thumbsup:
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Maciej Los 13-Sep-13 3:44am    
Have you installed new software? Please, try to reinstall Office.
Joan M 13-Sep-13 3:48am    
Not at all... unless some windows/office updates would have messed it all... anyway, I can try it...
But it looks like it is something in the document file as it works properly if I edit a new document based on the same template... :confused:
Nagy Vilmos 13-Sep-13 7:10am    
I wanted to try the reply button ;)
Joan M 13-Sep-13 7:18am    
You are welcome :D
Maciej Los 13-Sep-13 8:53am    
Have you tried to reinstall Office?

1 solution

Solved it by myself...

It is a little bit tricky and I've made a Tip&Trick and posted here in CP to allow anyone who would find him/herself into that situation to cope with it.

The word file had corrupted itself who knows why.

At the end it is not complicated to solve it. Take a look at the T&T here: Solve Black Squares on Word Titles[^]

Thank you all who have tried to help! :thumbsup:
 
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Maciej Los 13-Sep-13 12:34pm    
5ed!

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