it's a big document. whenever i try to open it, i get the error right away:
"A table in this document has become corrupted. To recover the contents of
the table, select the table and choose convert table to text from the table
munu". then it crashes. I tried to use word 2003 to OPEN AND REPAIR it,
successful. but i'm wondering if word 2000 could fix the problem as well. I
couldn't find the same option in word2000. please help.

Hi Rena:

Word 2000 doesn't have the Open and Repair mechanism, it was new in 2003.

However, unless the document is seriously bad, Word 2000 will probably open
it without crashing (where Word 2003 "won't").

If you get the document open, try Save As and choose Web Page. That will
clean the document up if it can. If it can't, Word will either crash or
hang.

If the Save As web page completes, close the document, open the web page,
and re-save that as a document. You will lose a little formatting.

Otherwise, in Word 2000 use FileOpen and change "Type" to "Recover Text
from any file". That will bring the text (only) out of the document for
you. You will lose ALL formatting.

After you use Recover Text, you must use FileOpen and change "Type" back to
"Office Document" or "Word Document" and then open a document, otherwise the
non-formatted setting sticks and all documents open that way.

Hope this helps


On 30/3/06 6:48 AM, in article
, "Rena"
wrote:

it's a big document. whenever i try to open it, i get the error right away:
"A table in this document has become corrupted. To recover the contents of
the table, select the table and choose convert table to text from the table
munu". then it crashes. I tried to use word 2003 to OPEN AND REPAIR it,
successful. but i'm wondering if word 2000 could fix the problem as well. I
couldn't find the same option in word2000. please help.

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Hi John,

Thanks for kindly reply me. the problem is the document won't open at all.
word crashes right after I got the error. so pretty much nothing I can do. I
can't perform "save as" or any other tasks.

"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote:

Hi Rena:

Word 2000 doesn't have the Open and Repair mechanism, it was new in 2003.

However, unless the document is seriously bad, Word 2000 will probably open
it without crashing (where Word 2003 "won't").

If you get the document open, try Save As and choose Web Page. That will
clean the document up if it can. If it can't, Word will either crash or
hang.

If the Save As web page completes, close the document, open the web page,
and re-save that as a document. You will lose a little formatting.

Otherwise, in Word 2000 use FileOpen and change "Type" to "Recover Text
from any file". That will bring the text (only) out of the document for
you. You will lose ALL formatting.

After you use Recover Text, you must use FileOpen and change "Type" back to
"Office Document" or "Word Document" and then open a document, otherwise the
non-formatted setting sticks and all documents open that way.

Hope this helps


On 30/3/06 6:48 AM, in article
, "Rena"
wrote:

it's a big document. whenever i try to open it, i get the error right away:
"A table in this document has become corrupted. To recover the contents of
the table, select the table and choose convert table to text from the table
munu". then it crashes. I tried to use word 2003 to OPEN AND REPAIR it,
successful. but i'm wondering if word 2000 could fix the problem as well. I
couldn't find the same option in word2000. please help.

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John McGhie
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Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

Hi John,

Thanks for kindly reply. the problem is the document won't open at all. word
crashes right after i got the error. I can't perform "save as" or any other
tasks. there're pretty much nothing i can do.

"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote:

Hi Rena:

Word 2000 doesn't have the Open and Repair mechanism, it was new in 2003.

However, unless the document is seriously bad, Word 2000 will probably open
it without crashing (where Word 2003 "won't").

If you get the document open, try Save As and choose Web Page. That will
clean the document up if it can. If it can't, Word will either crash or
hang.

If the Save As web page completes, close the document, open the web page,
and re-save that as a document. You will lose a little formatting.

Otherwise, in Word 2000 use FileOpen and change "Type" to "Recover Text
from any file". That will bring the text (only) out of the document for
you. You will lose ALL formatting.

After you use Recover Text, you must use FileOpen and change "Type" back to
"Office Document" or "Word Document" and then open a document, otherwise the
non-formatted setting sticks and all documents open that way.

Hope this helps


On 30/3/06 6:48 AM, in article
, "Rena"
wrote:

it's a big document. whenever i try to open it, i get the error right away:
"A table in this document has become corrupted. To recover the contents of
the table, select the table and choose convert table to text from the table
munu". then it crashes. I tried to use word 2003 to OPEN AND REPAIR it,
successful. but i'm wondering if word 2000 could fix the problem as well. I
couldn't find the same option in word2000. please help.

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John McGhie
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Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

You missed what I said: use FileOpen and set "Type" to "Recover text from
any file".

When you do that, Word will open the document in "safe mode" and retrieve
only the text. You will lose all formatting, but you will get the text
back.

cheers


On 3/4/06 10:50 PM, in article
, "Rena"
wrote:

Hi John,

Thanks for kindly reply. the problem is the document won't open at all. word
crashes right after i got the error. I can't perform "save as" or any other
tasks. there're pretty much nothing i can do.

"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote:

Hi Rena:

Word 2000 doesn't have the Open and Repair mechanism, it was new in 2003.

However, unless the document is seriously bad, Word 2000 will probably open
it without crashing (where Word 2003 "won't").

If you get the document open, try Save As and choose Web Page. That will
clean the document up if it can. If it can't, Word will either crash or
hang.

If the Save As web page completes, close the document, open the web page,
and re-save that as a document. You will lose a little formatting.

Otherwise, in Word 2000 use FileOpen and change "Type" to "Recover Text
from any file". That will bring the text (only) out of the document for
you. You will lose ALL formatting.

After you use Recover Text, you must use FileOpen and change "Type" back to
"Office Document" or "Word Document" and then open a document, otherwise the
non-formatted setting sticks and all documents open that way.

Hope this helps


On 30/3/06 6:48 AM, in article
, "Rena"
wrote:

it's a big document. whenever i try to open it, i get the error right away:
"A table in this document has become corrupted. To recover the contents of
the table, select the table and choose convert table to text from the table
munu". then it crashes. I tried to use word 2003 to OPEN AND REPAIR it,
successful. but i'm wondering if word 2000 could fix the problem as well. I
couldn't find the same option in word2000. please help.

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John McGhie
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Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410



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thanks a lot, John

"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote:

You missed what I said: use FileOpen and set "Type" to "Recover text from
any file".

When you do that, Word will open the document in "safe mode" and retrieve
only the text. You will lose all formatting, but you will get the text
back.

cheers


On 3/4/06 10:50 PM, in article
, "Rena"
wrote:

Hi John,

Thanks for kindly reply. the problem is the document won't open at all. word
crashes right after i got the error. I can't perform "save as" or any other
tasks. there're pretty much nothing i can do.

"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote:

Hi Rena:

Word 2000 doesn't have the Open and Repair mechanism, it was new in 2003.

However, unless the document is seriously bad, Word 2000 will probably open
it without crashing (where Word 2003 "won't").

If you get the document open, try Save As and choose Web Page. That will
clean the document up if it can. If it can't, Word will either crash or
hang.

If the Save As web page completes, close the document, open the web page,
and re-save that as a document. You will lose a little formatting.

Otherwise, in Word 2000 use FileOpen and change "Type" to "Recover Text
from any file". That will bring the text (only) out of the document for
you. You will lose ALL formatting.

After you use Recover Text, you must use FileOpen and change "Type" back to
"Office Document" or "Word Document" and then open a document, otherwise the
non-formatted setting sticks and all documents open that way.

Hope this helps


On 30/3/06 6:48 AM, in article
, "Rena"
wrote:

it's a big document. whenever i try to open it, i get the error right away:
"A table in this document has become corrupted. To recover the contents of
the table, select the table and choose convert table to text from the table
munu". then it crashes. I tried to use word 2003 to OPEN AND REPAIR it,
successful. but i'm wondering if word 2000 could fix the problem as well. I
couldn't find the same option in word2000. please help.

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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410



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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie
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Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410