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finding a corrupted table in word?
When I open a large Word document with many tables, it tells me that a table
is corrupt and to convert it to text. However it doesn't tell me which one. There are 100's! do I have to convert them all to text one at a time save and reopen every time until I find the corrupted table? |
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finding a corrupted table in word?
Split the document into two: save each half separately. Re-open each. Repeat
with the one that reports the error. And repeat until you've found it. The most likely culprit will be a long table (ie spanning two or more pages) and/or a table with merged or split cells. "Wonderful_Willz" wrote in message ... When I open a large Word document with many tables, it tells me that a table is corrupt and to convert it to text. However it doesn't tell me which one. There are 100's! do I have to convert them all to text one at a time save and reopen every time until I find the corrupted table? |
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Hmm...
if I could produce a doc with 100s of tables and 1 corrupted table, it would be easier to help. I'd try to make a copy of the doc in question, open both, answer the question for converting with yes for one doc, if there is a possibility for a decision at all, which I don't know, and then compare table(x) in doc(1) with table(x) in doc(2), until the comparison returns false. You don't have to compare the tables as a whole, just the start of the table's range would be sufficient. -- Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de" |
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If it is available in your version, have you tried using Open and Repair?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Wonderful_Willz" wrote in message ... When I open a large Word document with many tables, it tells me that a table is corrupt and to convert it to text. However it doesn't tell me which one. There are 100's! do I have to convert them all to text one at a time save and reopen every time until I find the corrupted table? |
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I have had the same problem as Wonderful_Wilz --but can't access Open and
Repair function, which is greyed out in the Open.. dialog box. How do I get the Open and Repair function to work? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If it is available in your version, have you tried using Open and Repair? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Wonderful_Willz" wrote in message ... When I open a large Word document with many tables, it tells me that a table is corrupt and to convert it to text. However it doesn't tell me which one. There are 100's! do I have to convert them all to text one at a time save and reopen every time until I find the corrupted table? |
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Note that you can manually locate the corrupt table by splitting the
document into halves; you'll see which half gives the error message, and then you can repeat the procedure, until you've located the problem table. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Plunk" wrote in message ... I have had the same problem as Wonderful_Wilz --but can't access Open and Repair function, which is greyed out in the Open.. dialog box. How do I get the Open and Repair function to work? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If it is available in your version, have you tried using Open and Repair? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Wonderful_Willz" wrote in message ... When I open a large Word document with many tables, it tells me that a table is corrupt and to convert it to text. However it doesn't tell me which one. There are 100's! do I have to convert them all to text one at a time save and reopen every time until I find the corrupted table? |
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finding a corrupted table in word?
Thanks, Suzanne --I have tried, but as noted, the drop-down menu through
which Open and Repair is accessible is greyed-out. Is there any other way to reach/select the open and repair function? Wait, just thought of something --I will get into tools/customize/ and see if the Open and REpair function is something I can put directly onto the window menu... I'll still appreciate any info you can provide, Suzanne, since it would seem from your large presence in these forums that you are a total genius in this stuff!! "Plunk" wrote: I have had the same problem as Wonderful_Wilz --but can't access Open and Repair function, which is greyed out in the Open.. dialog box. How do I get the Open and Repair function to work? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If it is available in your version, have you tried using Open and Repair? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Wonderful_Willz" wrote in message ... When I open a large Word document with many tables, it tells me that a table is corrupt and to convert it to text. However it doesn't tell me which one. There are 100's! do I have to convert them all to text one at a time save and reopen every time until I find the corrupted table? |
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When you select a file (one that isn't already open) in the Open dialog and
click on the arrow beside the Open button, you're seeing Open and Repair dimmed? I can't think why that would be. The only two options I see dimmed are "Open in Browser" (presumably available only for .htm and other Web page file types) and "Open with Transform" (no idea what that means--something to do with XML and XSLTs--so presumably I don't need it). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Plunk" wrote in message ... Thanks, Suzanne --I have tried, but as noted, the drop-down menu through which Open and Repair is accessible is greyed-out. Is there any other way to reach/select the open and repair function? Wait, just thought of something --I will get into tools/customize/ and see if the Open and REpair function is something I can put directly onto the window menu... I'll still appreciate any info you can provide, Suzanne, since it would seem from your large presence in these forums that you are a total genius in this stuff!! "Plunk" wrote: I have had the same problem as Wonderful_Wilz --but can't access Open and Repair function, which is greyed out in the Open.. dialog box. How do I get the Open and Repair function to work? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If it is available in your version, have you tried using Open and Repair? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Wonderful_Willz" wrote in message ... When I open a large Word document with many tables, it tells me that a table is corrupt and to convert it to text. However it doesn't tell me which one. There are 100's! do I have to convert them all to text one at a time save and reopen every time until I find the corrupted table? |
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finding a corrupted table in word?
My question is, how do I prevent this problem? I only have ONE table with
text and some png images, but the table gets very large and becomes corrupted. Does anyone know what causes this and how to prevent it? It's frustrating to be working to a deadline and have this happen constantly. Marlin "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: When you select a file (one that isn't already open) in the Open dialog and click on the arrow beside the Open button, you're seeing Open and Repair dimmed? I can't think why that would be. The only two options I see dimmed are "Open in Browser" (presumably available only for .htm and other Web page file types) and "Open with Transform" (no idea what that means--something to do with XML and XSLTs--so presumably I don't need it). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Plunk" wrote in message ... Thanks, Suzanne --I have tried, but as noted, the drop-down menu through which Open and Repair is accessible is greyed-out. Is there any other way to reach/select the open and repair function? Wait, just thought of something --I will get into tools/customize/ and see if the Open and REpair function is something I can put directly onto the window menu... I'll still appreciate any info you can provide, Suzanne, since it would seem from your large presence in these forums that you are a total genius in this stuff!! "Plunk" wrote: I have had the same problem as Wonderful_Wilz --but can't access Open and Repair function, which is greyed out in the Open.. dialog box. How do I get the Open and Repair function to work? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If it is available in your version, have you tried using Open and Repair? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Wonderful_Willz" wrote in message ... When I open a large Word document with many tables, it tells me that a table is corrupt and to convert it to text. However it doesn't tell me which one. There are 100's! do I have to convert them all to text one at a time save and reopen every time until I find the corrupted table? |
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