Hi All,

I have serached both this forum and the mvp site and used help in Word 2003,
could someone explain what detect and repair in Word does?

Obviously, it looks for anything that might be corrupted in a document such
as styles or pictures, but when Word repairs them what does it do? Does it
reset them to the default style (not always wanted)? Or, set them to the
most commonly found style type? Or...?

The reason I ask is that I recently used open and repair (word 2003) as per
instructions from garfield-n-odie in another thread and a list of the
repaired items came up in a dialogue box. It seemed that I had to click on,
highlight and locate each repair before they were carried out - I had to do
the repair bit twice and noticed the second time that the repair I'd chosen
the first time didn't appear anymore, yet the others were listed still, after
choosing them one-by-one I saved the doc, ran a repair again (just to see)
and nothing showed up. I had saved the doc after running open and repair
each time.

So, I was wondering what happens when this is chosen - if there's a fact
sheet out there could someone direct me to it?

Thanks,

Fiona Nelson