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Probably, the document's internal structures were already a bit muddled, and
adding an additional style made it blow. Just a guess... You've tried saving to
HTML, and lost most of that huge table, you say.

How about saving to XML, does that give you anything different?

About the only other idea I have that wouldn't involve recreating that complex
table would be to open a document that will at least SHOW you the table
on-screen, then do a Print Screen to capture it in a graphic. You could then
copy/paste the TEXT into a new file and insert this graphic in lieu of the
actual table.

I've attached a template and have been applying styles to a 50 page document
that has maybe 30 figures and 30 tables. The first page is a massive table
that looks like an engineering drawing. About half way thru the doc, I
defined a new paragraph style NOT in a table and the application went into
some kind of ballistic mode and reformatted ALL the tables in the document
such that the display showed rows and cells resizing independently. I
couldn't interrupt the operation, and then the system hung.

I closed out of Word, reopened and recovered the doc under a different name.
Now, no matter which version of the doc I open, I get the error message that
a table is corrupt, "odd" number of pages in this document (sometimes 8
pages, or 3 pages,or 130 pages) and each row became a separate 1/2 inch wide
table separated by a paragraph mark.

Tables in 2003 behave differently than those in previous versions of
Office/Word (a 18 year FT user for my job). What is with the 'text box'
behavior of tables (the white resize grab boxes in the corners of a table)?

What caused this outrageous unrecoverable behavior? Upoon opening
eitherversion of the document, a dialog displays one of the tables has become
corrupt...

I already tried the MVP suggestion to save as web page, and only get the
first 3 rows of the front page. I didn't touch or redefine any of the styles
in that first table....


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

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