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MS Word displaying page number before certain words
Dear All,
Today I encountered something very strange with a Word document that I am still struggling to understand. Namely, I figured out that Word had inserted the page number before certain words in a document. It is in fact a non-printable item and when pasted as value, it is gone. My wild guess would be that the said words might have also been subject to spelling check by Word at some point. The problematic file itself is used by more than 30 people, with different language settings. Visually, it is as follows:
Could you please advise where are these numbers coming from and how can I remove them in bulk? Your help is appreciated!
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Is the issue specific to that one document? Or can you reproduce it in other documents as well?
If the issue can be observed in other documents, does it occur in conjunction with specific actions (editing, printing, etc.)?
- Hi, Stefan! Thanks for joining the conversation. In fact, the same issue is available in other documents as well. I have not managed to catch the source of the issue yet. My wild guess would be something related to the higher number of texts in different languages and the MS Word proofing/spell check functionalities. Unfortunately, a lot of people use the affected documents and it is not easy to trace the source of the issue.
Are you running any add-ins in Word? Try options 6 and 7 in the article at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/word/issues-when-start-or-use-word to (temporarily) disable all add-ins and see if that improves the situation.
Hello Radoslav_Vladimirov ,
without seeing the entire document I can only guess. It appears as if the page number is in a box and that the properties of the box allow text to overflow the page-number box.
Can you click on the page-number and move it?
- Thank you for your input, Lenka. Unfortunately, the document is internal and I am not allowed to share it. Indeed, the numbers are in boxes, taking into account the visual borders. What I subsequently found is that the words concatenated to the said numbers (corresponding to the page number) are not actual words from the document text, but again - MS Word generated strings that tend to repeat.
