[wlm]

I am working on a 500-page document that contains in tracked changes, has had portions pasted in from various sources, contains NUMEROUS (but simple) tables and has too many styles to mention (a recipe for disaster?). Just about every line item in every table (except for the header rows) has automatic numbering applied to (which it should not). I applied a style to each of the cells to and saved the document, but when I reopened it, the numbers were back. I got the same result when I changed the text to Normal or just removed the numbering, or both - the formatting didn't "stick". I do not get any error messages while working in the document nor upon opening it. I tried Open/Repair, but no repairs were noted. I am thinking about converting all the tables to text and recreating the tables, but since I don't know what the cause of this is, I don't want to do all this work if some underlying issue is going to surface later on down the road. I would eliminate all the extraneous styles that are in the document as well. The person who gave me the file wants revert back to a previous version that was performing normally, but I think it would be just a matter of time before this same issue surface again. Does anyone have any suggestions for cleaning up this document for good? We would like to retain the changes that have been tracked so far. Thank you.

[Peter T. Daniels]

One possibility would be to print a pdf of the document, showing markup,
so that you'd have a record of who made what changes (or even just make
a copy ["Save As"] of the document and stop using the old one), and then
Accept all the changes.

On Thursday, December 5, 2013 12:09:26 AM UTC-5, wlm wrote:

I am working on a 500-page document that contains in tracked changes,
has had portions pasted in from various sources, contains NUMEROUS (but
simple) tables and has too many styles to mention (a recipe for
disaster?). Just about every line item in every table (except for the
header rows) has automatic numbering applied to (which it should not). I
applied a style to each of the cells to and saved the document, but when
I reopened it, the numbers were back. I got the same result when I
changed the text to Normal or just removed the numbering, or both - the
formatting didn't "stick". I do not get any error messages while working
in the document nor upon opening it. I tried Open/Repair, but no repairs
were noted. I am thinking about converting all the tables to text and
recreating the tables, but since I don't know what the cause of this is,
I don't want to do all this work if some underlying issue is going to
surface later on down the road. I would eliminate all the extraneous
styles that are in the document as well. The person who gave me the file
wants revert back to a previous version that was performing normally,
but I think it would be just a matter of time before this same issue
surface again. Does anyone have any suggestions for cleaning up this
document for good? We would like to retain the changes that have been
tracked so far. Thank you.