Word 2013 Issue

[Werfetter]

-Hi Guys,

So a short background to my issue: I have been editing a Word document (docx) in Word 2013 for the past two hours, hitting ctrl+s after every section as is my habit. The file I'm editing is on a file server on a different machine and it takes a while to save so I notice every time it happens. The document mostly contains data that I have aggregated from other Word (docx) documents I have created in the past.

So the issue is when I try to close/save or save the document as something else the document does not save and the "Save As" windows pops up again. I have tried saving the file locally, tried changing its name (on the file server first and then locally) and copying the entire document into a new document and then try saving that. Every time the "Save as" window just pops back up and nothing gets saved. When saving the contents pasted into a new blank document and saving that only a blank document is created. The only thing that works is saving it as a 97-2003 doc file. This would be fine if I didn't lose a lot of the formatting. When attempting to save newly created doc file as a docx again the same problem persists.

None of the changes I have made to the document since opening it is saved and the timestamps say that no change have been made since opening it.

Any one have a clue what to look for to fix this?

 

[Werfetter]

Well if any one is interested I have found the problem. One of the documents I was copying from was password protected. For some reason when I copy a large section of it (a paragraph or two at a time did not seem to restrict me) it would not allow me to save. The last part of the document is just a lot of screenshots so they were just copied across 'en masse.

I had to remove the password from the document I was copying from, recopy the last load of images and Voila...

After fixing my document I fiddled for a bit to see exactly what can be copied and what not but from what I can gather it is absolutely random and only governed by Mr Schrödinger's cat and a barrel of seahorses... as an example when I copy only a specific image the destination document wont save, but when I copy the same image and the text next to it (in line with it not a caption or something) the destination document saves. Another example, when I copied about a page of pure text from the protected document the destination document won't save, but if I copy it paragraph by paragraph it saved perfectly. I even enabled the show hidden formatting symbols to make sure there wasn't something funny I missed because I was selecting it bit by bit.

If any one understand this better than I do I would be happy if some one could explain it to me...

 

[Werfetter]

Well if any one is interested I have found the problem. One of the documents I was copying from was password protected. For some reason when I copy a large section of it (a paragraph or two at a time did not seem to restrict me) it would not allow me to save. The last part of the document is just a lot of screenshots so they were just copied across 'en masse.

I had to remove the password from the document I was copying from, recopy the last load of images and Voila...

After fixing my document I fiddled for a bit to see exactly what can be copied and what not but from what I can gather it is absolutely random and only governed by Mr Schrödinger's cat and a barrel of seahorses... as an example when I copy only a specific image the destination document wont save, but when I copy the same image and the text next to it (in line with it not a caption or something) the destination document saves. Another example, when I copied about a page of pure text from the protected document the destination document won't save, but if I copy it paragraph by paragraph it saved perfectly. I even enabled the show hidden formatting symbols to make sure there wasn't something funny I missed because I was selecting it bit by bit.

If any one understand this better than I do I would be happy if you could explain it to me...