Help! I've deleted most text in a Word document and pressed save!

Help! I've deleted most text in a Word document accidentally and pressed save - thus losing most of the last week's work! Is there likely to be a temp file anywhere from yesterday so that I can retrieve it?

I don't know which Mac you have, but if you have an intel, update to 10.7 and you can use the function called Versions, which autmatically saves a version of your text, and you can revert to it when needed.

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And another issue is when i search for the particular pattern i need to store the pattern that comes after the pattern as i need it for further use before i replace it.
Thanks And Warm Regards,
Nischal

Hey Chen,
Well before i do the search and edit , I am actually opening a .mts file in word which is happening successfully.
The issue that i am facing now is I am unable to save it as .doc file through the 'SaveAs' method.
Here is my code. Can u please tell me what i need to do in order to correct this.
After i do this conversion i intend to pass the data from the .doc file to an internal table and then do the required change.
But First i need to save it to .doc type.
REPORT MAIN_PROGRAM_2.
INCLUDE OLE2INCL.
*Declaration Of OLE2_Object Variables.
DATA: WORD            TYPE OLE2_OBJECT,
      DOCUMENTS       TYPE OLE2_OBJECT,
      ACT_DOCUMENTS   TYPE OLE2_OBJECT.
*Declaration of variables
PARAMETERS PATH       TYPE string.
DATA:Relative_Path    TYPE string,
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*Declaration of an internal table
CONCATENATE PATH '\Script.mts' INTO RELATIVE_PATH.
*Object Creation in order for us to open word
CREATE OBJECT WORD 'WORD.APPLICATION'.
PERFORM ERROR_HANDLE.
*Set visibility property of MS word.
SET property of WORD 'VISIBLE' = 1.
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CALL METHOD OF DOCUMENTS 'OPEN' EXPORTING #1 = RELATIVE_PATH.
PERFORM ERROR_HANDLE.
*GET PROPERTY OF WORD 'ActiveDocument' = ACT_DOCUMENTS.
*PERFORM ERROR_HANDLE.
**To save the script.mts to script .doc file in order to put it into an internal table
CONCATENATE PATH '\Script.doc' INTO RELATIVE_PATH_SAVE.
CALL METHOD OF WORD 'SaveAs' EXPORTING #1 = RELATIVE_PATH_SAVE.
PERFORM ERROR_HANDLE.
FREE OBJECT WORD.
The Save part of the code is giving me an OLE error = 2
Thanks And Kind Regards,
Nischal
Edited by: Nischal HP on Apr 28, 2011 1:53 PM

How do I generate a Word document and a PDF from Help files?

Hi,
I am new to RoboHelp HTML, and am using version 8. I updated some Help files, and now I want to generate output. Here are my questions/ or the process I used:
To compile the help, I clicked Generate Primary Layout. Is this correct? I noticed that the date stamp on the xpj file has not changed. The date is still from many months ago. (Why is that? Should it show a recent update date?) However, the files that I updated do reflect the dates when I made the updates. These include art files, an hhp, and htm, js, ldb, pss, cpd files.
To generate a pdf, I clicked Generate PDF. I was not able to generate the PDF at first, but then, I enabled macros in Word 2007 (Trust Center Settings > Enable all macros...and clicked the checkbox, Trust access to the VBA project object model), and clicked Generate PDF. At the end of the generation, I got this error in Word: Microsoft Office Word has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. The info you were working on might be lost. Word can try to recover it for you. I closed the dialog and Word generated several blank documents. Microsoft Office Diagnostics was run and found one problem and corrected it. Despite the error message, a pdf was generated. (If you could give me any insight on why I got the error messages, that could be helpful to know).
How do I generate a Word document?
Thank you!
Erin

Welcome to our community
Note that RoboHelp is capable of creating a variety of layouts. WebHelp, FlashHelp, AIR Help, Microsoft HTML Help, JavaHelp, Oracle Help, ePub and more.
Any of these layouts may be nominated as the Primary layout. So when you generate the Primary layout, you get whatever has been configured as the Primary layout.
Only certain actions will result in a change to the .XPJ file. The actions are indicative of major changes to the project. So I wouldn't fret the fact that the date time stamp wasn't updated.
Indeed the Printed Documentation Single Source Layout recipe is what you use to create PDF. Generally what happens is that RoboHelp creates a Microsoft Word document as an intermediate file type, then creates the PDF from that. As you might imagine, there are a host of things that can go wrong during the process. I might suggest that you first get a Word document to generate cleanly. Then once you do that, focus on PDF. I know that I typically gen a Word document and stop there. I just open Word and use Word to create the PDF.
If you look at the properties for the Printed Documentation Single Source Layout recipe (View > Pods > Single Source Layouts then right-click the Printed Documentation layout and choose Properties) you will see that PDF, Word or both are options at the top of the dialog.
Hopefully that gives you a nudge in the right direction.
My fellow Adobe Community Expert Peter Grainge has excellent info on Printed Documentation on his site at Grainge.org. Click the link below for that.
Click here to visit Peter's site
Cheers... Rick
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I read something like that in http://www.rzg.mpg.de/from_external/Frame6_Handbuch/Setting_up_FrameMaker.pdf (german), but I actually don't know what to chage for my case.

Rather than create a new menu item (possible, I gather, but fiddly) I would recommendchanging the default “paste” behaviour.
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How do I select texte discontinuouly : one word here and another there

How do I select texte discontinuouly : one word here and another there, etc.

Use Pages '09.
Feature has been removed from Pages 5, along with 100+ others.
Peter

I was able finally to delete unwanted text boxes in my document; however, now my second page is missing and there are several following pages in a language that appears to be Latin. What sin have I committed and how do I atone to get my second page back?

I was able finally to delete unwanted text boxes in my Pages document; howver, the result is that the 2nd page of my document is missing and there are now several following pages in a language that appears to be latin. What sin have I committed and how do I atone?

10 marks for recognising the Latin (sort of) that is the placeholder text in your template.
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Hello everyone ,
I have a form include text box1 , I need to check a word document if there is specific text inside it , if it’s true the textbox1.text = 1 , if it’s false the textbox1.text = 0 , and so on .
to be clear I’m trying to check a lot of things not just specific text also ( font size , font color , font type , photo , table …………etc ) .
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Thanks in advance.
Visual Studio 2013
office 2007

"1- what if i need to check that word in the beginning of the second paragraph in that document or at the end of the third paragraph "
to find a word in a paragraph, use the range keyword as in
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/78whx7s6(v=vs.80).aspx

Importing text from large Word document ID freeze

I'm converting a large Word document to PDF via InDesign and when I import the text from the Word doc, ID always freezes.
I want to preserve the styles and formatting in the text but unfortunately the freeze occurs at the beginning where the Placing Microsoft Office Word 2007 document progress bar shows either "Processing character attributes..." or "Processing table attributes..."
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Have a look at this too - http://www.paperspecs.com/mainblog/degunkifying-word-files/

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Dear,
you cannot attach,....but you can copy from word document to text click on long text and copy the word document data to the long text page and save

Help! I deleted some playlists from my iPhone 4S, and it deleted the playlists in my iTunes library as well! What can I do to get my playlists back?

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If you keep the 4s and send back the 4 you ARE stealing their device. If the decide they want the device back, send them the device that they purchased.
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This post is my own opinion and does not necessarily reflect the opinion or view of Slalom.

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You would either need to use Acrobat to edit your letterhead PDF, or add the text in whatever application you used to create the letterhead in the first place, and then re-create the PDF. If you have the source file, then the latter may be easier.
Best,
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