It's a start. Also see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm
for other approaches. If you have Word 2003, just use Open and Repair.

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"Alison" wrote in message
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Sorry for the misunderstanding. So, I can just do a simple paste, without
the final paragraph mark and that will take care of it?
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Cooz did not suggest that you paste unformatted, just without the final
paragraph mark.

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"Alison" wrote in message
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Thanks, but I'd like to see if there's a way other than using Paste
Special/Unformatted -- in order to retain the selective direct
formatting.
Is there a way to import the document into a new container, while
retaining
the direct formatting?
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"Cooz" wrote:

Hi Alison,

Try copy and paste the entire document _except_ the last paragraph
mark.
This is where corruption often resides.

Good luck,
Cooz
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"Alison" wrote:

I work frequently with lengthy documents that are round-tripped to
several
people using different versions of Word and other word processing
software.
Often, these documents go corrupt.

Is there any way -- short of copying-pasting the text into a new
document
shell using EditPaste Special/Unformatted Text -- that the
corruption
can be
removed? There are frequent occasions when extensive direct
formatting
(i.e., selective bolding, italicizing, underlining, etc.) has been
used,
which I would like to preserve in a new document, given the size
of
the
documents I get and the amount of time it would take to reapply
this
selective formatting. But Paste Special/Unformatted strips all of
this, and
Paste Special/Formatted doesn't appear to remove the corruption.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help.
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Alison