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I've found four problems in two areas and they looked like the use of formulas was fouling them up. a minor amount of content was lost.

1. I had to remove まえ and 前 from the table containing "マナさんは　日本ごを　べんきょうしてから、日本へ　来ました" on page 45 (of 107).
2. i had to remove い and 言 from the table containing "The action represented by V2 occurs..." on page 47 (of 107).

Those two areas need to be examined closely for content loss and formatting.

I've uploaded the repaired DOCX to my SkyDrive here for your reference and download.

N1はN2です (Jeeped).docx

hello, mr Jeeped,

i've read lots of tutorials about how to repair my docx, but nothing fits.

my document stopped working after i saw the table borderlines in light blue and dashed (initially transparent) and i decided to save the file and exit. after that, i wanted to check if it opened but it wouldn't. i was using formulas because i thought it's easier than inserting shapes and text boxes.

i don't care about the ending format, but could you please help me with my document also?

You had a formula that had no characters. I would suppose that the formula was removed with <backspace> or something similar. I removed the paragraph start and stop XML tags that were noting the empty formula.

You should proofread 2.9.2 Antenna Array Gain Measurement starting on page 31 carefully. I do not believe any content was lost, but I never saw the original document.

The repaired DOCX is on my SkyDrive here.

Thesis Paper (Jeeped).docx

Jeeped,

This paper is my Masters Thesis in its infancy. I have been working on this all day today, and create backup files every couple of nights, but have done extensive work on it since I created a backup file. 

Jeeped will have to take care of the file structure problem. Here is some information that will help reduce the impact of this type of problem in the future.

You already identified the key problem with your current "backup plan" (I use the phrase VERY loosely).  Simply put, you are doing it manually and wait too long between backups.  A thesis is a high value document, VERY high value to your <grin>.  Instead, you should rely on automation to do it more frequently.

Here is a collection of tools that I've encountered that will do "automated" save as backups for you in various ways. Some are free, some a paid and some are DIY.  But they all will do the backups without your intervention. So the next time, and there will be, this happens, you can fall back to a backup version of the file that is only several minutes, or tens of minutes old. Not DAY or DAYS old!  That is a lot less painful.

True Autosave Macros for Office

This file you are working on is HIGH VALUE (to you). You MUST take extra steps to protect the time and creativity you have invested in this file. You MUST make frequent backups.

A good general rule for backups is:

Remember 3-2-1 to have good backups --

·         at least 3 copies of any file,

·         at least 2 different storage mediums (say on a hard drive, thumb drive, DVD or the cloud),

·         at least 1 copy offsite -- in case of fire etc!  (say thumb drive or DVD moved to different location, or the cloud)

Steve Gibson

PS: yes “correct” the plural of medium is media, but I don’t speak latin! <grin>

You can do your backups manually or make use of automated tools.  A strategy I have used is timed backups during the editing session (5 minute). Then the final end of day save is copied to second medium. I rotate the "second" medium with an Offsite copy.  Once a week I go in and clean up the 5 minute incremental backups to keep just the end of day copy (to free up space!)

I have used the "autohistory" tool at codeplex. It is easy to use, but like any automated process it uses up a lot of space.

Unfortunately, although Office apps have been around since the the mid 1980’s, MS has not figured out that we need a good “Autosave” backup feature. In the past there was a “versions” feature in some office apps, but it only kept incremental copies of files, not full files. Win7 has a file “versions” feature, but it is tied into “System Recovery Points”. Not very useful.  The following links tell how to setup macros that run automatically and use SAVEAS to save full copies of the file with the date/time included in the file name. You have to manually delete the “extra” backup files, but you control the process rather than Windows or Office. It is a bit more work, but I find it worth it for very important files that are changing frequently.

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Save Dated & numbered Backup versions of a document - Word

http://www.gmayor.com/save\_numbered\_versions.htm

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Save Numbered Versions Add-In for Word 2007 & 2010

http://www.gmayor.com/SaveVersionsAdd-In.htm

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Save Numbered Backup Versions of Document

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SaveIncrementedFilename.htm

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Autohistory for Word 2007 / 2010, Excel 2010 (Version Control)

https://autohistory.codeplex.com/

Creates a Date&Timestamped copy of file every time you perform a normal Save. You can access any of the older versions. It creates a folder for each document affected. You have to the option of creating a single “universal” backup location.  The History is located in a NEW GROUP on the View Tab.

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Timed Automatic backup Word documents

http://www.gmayor.com/automatically\_backup.htm

Graham has created an addin that does something MS should have done 20+ years ago.

<snip>

Contrary to popular opinion, Word has no integral means of automatically saving the current document, nor of backing-up the current document. What it does have is an option to save AutoRecover information after a specific and configurable interval and an option to save a backup copy of the previously saved version of the document with the default file extension of WBK (and although there is no reason to do so, Word also allows the option to change this extension to the user's choice). This is not a true backup in as much as it is not a copy of the current version of the document.

A function to create a true automatic backup is provided by the **Save In Two Places add-in which is detailed in a separate page**, There is also available from this web site a complementary add-in which provides numbered versions of a document. **Again that has its own web page.**

</snip>

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Saving Everything Macros

http://word.tips.net/T001469\_Saving\_Everything.html

Summary: Need to force users to save their work? It may be as simple as implementing an AutoNew() to force every new file to have a filename, and an AutoClose() to save the current document BEFORE closing. It could, however, also have something to do with training users.

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Controlling Names of Backup Files

http://wordribbon.tips.net/T011760\_Controlling\_Names\_of\_Backup\_Files.html

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Save the current document in two locations add-in for Word 2007 & 2010

http://www.gmayor.com/SaveInTwoPlacesAddIn.htm

Performs a normal save in one location, then does a DOS copy to the second location (ie USB)

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Making Backups as You Work

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=731710&seqNum=5

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Win8 Tip: Enable File History

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-tip-enable-file-history-143579

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zApps-apps Collection for 2007/2010/2013 - 7 day free trial Word, Excel, PowerPoint

http://www.greatcirclelearning.com/software/zapps-apps/zapps-apps-collection

The zAPPs-apps Collection adds functionality to Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint and Excel to automate common work tasks and automatically save local copies of your files. Your ability to reuse content is optimized, your ability to work with images is enhanced, and copies of your files are saved locally every time you save so that you can instantly go back to a usable copy if you have a crash or overwrite content you need. The zAPPs-apps Collection streamlines and accelerates your work process.

The Collection contains 16 tools that run in Excel, PowerPoint and Word to help you:

• easily go back to prior versions of your files so that you can recover and reuse overwritten content
• extract anything from a PPT file for use in a Word file
• save embedded images for reuse as stand-alone image files
• import multiple images at the same time
• resize multiple images at the same time
• extract multiple content items all at once
• view all of the data about an open file in 1 dialog box, from 1 click

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Helping You Recover Your Work in Office 2010 – Autorecover

http://blogs.technet.com/b/office2010/archive/2009/09/22/helping-you-recover-your-work-in-office-2010.aspx

Have you ever closed Word after making a bunch of changes, and then accidently clicked ‘No' when asked if you want to save your changes?  Then you suddenly realized what you have done, only to find that there was no way to recover your work?  You are not alone.  In fact, so many people were in similar situations that we improved Office 2010 so you can get that document back!  We call this feature Versions and I would like to spend a little time introducing it to you.

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Recovering More of Your Work with a Shorter AutoRecover Interval

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=731710

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Automatically Saving Your Work Frequently – Word and Excel

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=731710&seqNum=2

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Making Backups as You Work 1

http://www.msofficetuneup.com/2008/06/01/making-backups-as-you-work-in-word-2007/

     http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=731710&seqNum=5

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Saving in Document Format from a Macro

http://word.tips.net/T000427\_Saving\_in\_Document\_Format\_from\_a\_Macro.html

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Use the Cloud

http://www.labnol.org/software/google-docs-with-microsoft-office/18815/

Although using the cloud does not inherently include timed backup, it does provide a useful backup function. Saving copies to the cloud eliminates the danger of losing your physical local copies, ie losing a HD or USB Thumb drive.

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A Real AutoSave

http://word.tips.net/T000157_A_Real_AutoSave.html

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