While writing a word document (office 2007) I added a figure. Then i right-clicked on it and selected "add caption". You then get a little box in which you can add some text. The box comes containing the test "Figure X" and you enter your text directly after the number X. I added the text "is an enlargment of Figure 2". Then Word did something which I can't recover from. Did it not like the word Figure in the caption and got confused? This is what it looks like:
All views except "Draft" look sort of like this. Selecting draft I see the document, but everything is marked. I can't unmark it and whatever I do it starts adding things to the clipboard. Emptying the clipboard doesn't help, closing word and starting it again doesn't help.
Please please can someone tell me how to get out of this mysterious mode!
Best Answer
As it's running in compatability mode, I'm assuming it's a .doc binary file, rather than the newer .docx xml based files...
Can you do a File | Save As, and save it as a .docx file format?
Once it's saved as a .docx, even if opening it still yields the same corrupt format as above, you should be able to open the docx container (as a zip file), and view the individual files inside. From there, you may be able to correct the issue - whatever that may be.