Copying a whole document

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JohnN

Working with a completed 500-page book. Came time to generate the TOC and it
wouldn't generate. FINALLY, did a Ctrl-A, a Ctrl-C, and pasted it into a new,
blank document. Now I could generate a TOC. Conclusion: original doc was
corrupt, and the corruption did not carry over to the new one. My question:
in my copy-paste operation, have I brought everything over that needs to stay
with the doc? Meaning: have I left anything behind that is essential, that
might cause my "new" version, perhaps, to be short on some needed info (like
maybe something hidden in a section head or perhaps invisible MSW
housekeeping info)? Many thanks.
 
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Graham Mayor

Copying (all but the final paragraph mark) to a new document is a valid way
of fixing a corrupt document. It is the 'invisible information' essentially
in the final paragraph mark that is likely to be the source of such
corruption. If the document looks right, it probably is.

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