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Word 2003 and Corrupt Tables
I am a long-time user of Word and edit technical training documents that
uses table cells for text and lots of different iterations of table formats. Our corporation just loaded Word 2003 and now, suddenly, I'm having a huge problem with corrupt tables. The documents being sent to me are not corrupt, but something is happening that results in Word assessing some, many or all of the tables as corrupt. If I do an "Open and Repair" Words repair makes a huge mess of the entire document. Any ideas where I start? Is it possible I need to get Technical Support to do a "repair" of my Word app? |
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Word 2003 and Corrupt Tables
You could try reinstalling Word (that's all there is to 'repairing' it); but
the problem is more likely the change in the way tables are handled between W2000 and W2003 -- this was a fairly major change, trying to deal with the difference between tables as handled in a document and tables as rendered on web pages. W2003 is unhappy with very long tables (ie spanning a lot of pages) and tables with complicated merged and split cells. Long-term, the fix is to stop using tables for page layout purposes (as has been the change with HTML over the past few years): use them only for tabulated data as such. If the problem is multi-page tables, split them into shorter sections. Also make sure you don't have style challenges like several pages of consective 'Keep with next' paragraphs within the tables. Or why not just go back to using W2000? I have no idea what 'iteration of table formats' means. "A DeLew" wrote in message ... I am a long-time user of Word and edit technical training documents that uses table cells for text and lots of different iterations of table formats. Our corporation just loaded Word 2003 and now, suddenly, I'm having a huge problem with corrupt tables. The documents being sent to me are not corrupt, but something is happening that results in Word assessing some, many or all of the tables as corrupt. If I do an "Open and Repair" Words repair makes a huge mess of the entire document. Any ideas where I start? Is it possible I need to get Technical Support to do a "repair" of my Word app? |
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This was just an upgrade from Word 2002 to 2003, not from 2000. We have very
distinct style rules about managing the tables we do use, knowing that long tables, embedded tables, and tables in general can be a "pain". The writers in the group are using the same 2003 version of Word to create the documents that contain the tables, and they are not having the issue with corrupt tables. It is only after the file is sent to me and I work with it in the editing process that the corrupt table occurs. |
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Word 2003 and Corrupt Tables
In some set-ups, there is an issue with Word documents being damaged by the
process of emailing. Pick one of the documents that's caused you a problem and ask the sender to resend it as a zip file. (That's the most common work-araound, anyway.) "A DeLew" wrote in message ... This was just an upgrade from Word 2002 to 2003, not from 2000. We have very distinct style rules about managing the tables we do use, knowing that long tables, embedded tables, and tables in general can be a "pain". The writers in the group are using the same 2003 version of Word to create the documents that contain the tables, and they are not having the issue with corrupt tables. It is only after the file is sent to me and I work with it in the editing process that the corrupt table occurs. |
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Word 2003 and Corrupt Tables
The documents are zipped when emailing. Some are not emailed but are
transferred by being posted to and downloaded from a shared drive. Our tech support person just dropped by and said my copy of the template I use for these documents must be corrupt. I have the same template on my laptop also with Word 2003 and I do not have these issues. I have deleted my template and reloaded one from another user of the template. I am still having the problem. Is there something in my registry perhaps that could be causing the problem? And, as I say this, should this problem be better directed to a newsgroup for errors and Word operational issues rather than where I've posted it? |
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Word 2003 and Corrupt Tables
Hi,
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