Corruption as you describe usually relates to one specific bit of the
document: typically a graphic with an internal corruption or a table --
especially a very long table that spans several pages. You describe
recovering the document and everything was fine for a few days -- it might
be that during that time you didn't visit the bit of the document that
contained the corruption.

What sort of 'very complicated' formatting does your document contain? In
what way do AutoSave and AutoFormatting become nightmarish?





"jen" wrote in message
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Hi.
I'm creating a manual in Word for a program we use at work.
While I am working (40 pages) the formatting gets very complicated and
autosave and autoformating becomes a nightmare, Finally, Word halts for
ages as thought it's either updating or something, though it allows me to
continue on other applications. This can take up to 10 minutes. Just
adding one word or saving would take another 10 minutes. In the meantime,
the size increases constantly, from a normal 10 mb to 116 mb in just 2
minutes.
I know it's to do with formatting as this happens mostly when inserting
number/bullets. Normally the doc automatically adjusts and one can
backspace if necessary. However, in my doc, this causes the whole
document to go crazy, and takes forever, and gets worse by the minute.
While this is going on, I try 'saving as' in another name, but doesn't
help. I copy and paste, which has worked much in the past, as if cleansed
from whatever was plaguing it, but by now the file is complicated, with
many images and screen shots.

I have tried splitting the file up in three bits, copied pasted, fixed the
formatting and copied and pasted bit by bit. it worked!! But, then
after a couple of days, adding a little to it here and there, it happens
again, till it finally collapsed. The other day, it auto recovered on
2003 and something got fixed because it went down to 10,000 kb and worked
like a dream. Two days later (today) I'm just finishing it off at work,
small details, corrections and it starts to happen again, until I couldn't
even do my normal work. Word would just crash, every time I tried to
save it.

Any ideas please?
Also how can you repair a damaged file?
Thanks in advance