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

Hi ?B?ZmlvbmEgbmVsc29u?=,

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?

The only information I was able to find is he

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;822238

I'll try to find out more, but it may take a while...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Thanks Cindy for taking the trouble to do that search. I'll do some myself
on the microsoft website and see if I can get anything more as well. I'll
post back with anything I find.

Fiona

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?ZmlvbmEgbmVsc29u?=,

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?

The only information I was able to find is he

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;822238

I'll try to find out more, but it may take a while...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Hi Cindy,

I asked microsoft customer support and this is the reply I got - doesn't
really answer the question but it may not be a simple question to answer...

"Detect and Repair will set the following back to the state they appeared in
when you first installed Office:

-The Assistant character selection
-Most-recently-used entries on the File menu will be removed
-The size of the application window for all applications
-Menu and toolbar position and any customizations
-The security level for each application
-View settings within the application, such as the Calendar view in Outlook

This procedure detects and repairs problems such as missing files and
registry settings associated with all installed Microsoft Office programs. It
will not repair personal files, such as spreadsheets or documents.

If the Detect and Repair command does not fix the problem, you might need to
reinstall Microsoft Office. "

I then asked specifically about choosing one document at a time and what
Open and Repair did and got the following reply..

"To repair a specific document, yes, you have to choose them one by one.
This function affects only chosen file because as I have stated earlier it
will remove the most-recently used entries in your documents."

So it looks to reset everything that is document specific (rather than
programme global). It hasn't reset any of my security settings or any of the
styles I have customised (thank goodness), it just seems to have taken out
the "bad" things that were affecting my heading styles. It seems not to have
affected normal.dot at all.

The document was residing in a document management programme before I edited
it, so that may have had something to do with it. Thanks for the time you've
taken to reply.

Fiona

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?ZmlvbmEgbmVsc29u?=,

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?

The only information I was able to find is he

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;822238

I'll try to find out more, but it may take a while...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)