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Default Mangled WORD doc

I was wondering what the experts on this would do in this case.=20

A friend of mine was hired to "do some light editing and oh, BTW fix the =

TOC and Figures, and resize graphics for a 40 page doc " on a 24 hour=20
deadline. 4 or 5 people has contributed to the doc before he got it. =
When=20
the doc came it was 140 pages - the TOC was pages numbers started at one =

in places, some page numbers were clearly picking up a Header 9 Style, =
the=20
Appdendices need Appendix page numbers, the list of figures disappeared=20
when the table was updated and listed two figures that weren't on the=20
origianl lists. There were multiple header styles in the doc. The effort =
to=20
resize .bmp graphics by copying to another program, converting to .jpg =
and=20
reinserting (oh but maybe he did paste!) the image caused the file to=20
increase in size...=20

I got involved in helping and consider myself an Intermediate user.=20

1. We fixed the TOC (section breaks were starting page number one)=20
2. I started working on understanding what was going on with the figures =

and discovered the issue with the figures .....

when we stopped and said, can't do this in the time frame.=20

Is the correct thing to do under those circumstances to simply strip the =
doc=20
of formatting and rebuild using a known template?=20

Did copying the graphics instead of reinserting cause the file to =
increase in=20
size?=20

Thanks. I'd love to have been able to fix the file......: )=20

 
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