Large Word Document spontaneously gains pages or loses words.

Anonymous
2018-03-02T21:38:27+00:00

When I transfered a large Word 2010 Doc to my new computer (into Word 2016) from the cloud, 1500 words disappeared. Nobody could figure out why or which words were missing.

Now that same file (Word 2016) has spontaneously added 10 pages (it went from 469 to 479 pages), but there are no blank pages and the page format and word count haven't changed. Can anyone tell me what could have happened?

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-03-05T01:55:10+00:00

    That's correct, Susanne. It's also on the Page Count under Review and on the pages themselves. The question is: why are there more pages than before if nothing else changed? Not the format nor the word count.

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  2. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-03-04T23:42:09+00:00

    As I believe that I have said before, while the printer itself may not have changed, the printer driver may have changed because you now have a different computer with a different version of Office installed.

    In addition, the default line spacing in Word 2016 is quite likely different from that in Word on your old computer.

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  3. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-03-04T22:06:46+00:00

    Page numbers are displayed on the status bar.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-04T16:14:41+00:00

    I went back to a version I know was 469 pages to compare the last lines manually and it's now 488 pages!! Did something happen with an MS update to cause this??

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-03-04T15:12:53+00:00

    Susanne, 

    I'm scrolling through the doc using the Compare tool, which is really slow. Is there any way to have the page numbers show up?

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