Document Behaving Strangely

[Ross Payne]

I am working on a large document (500KB, no graphics) in Word 2003. When I
try to modify one particular style, Word crashes. It doesn't happen with any
other style in this document, or in any other document. I have a sinking
feeling that the document may be somehow corrupted. Any ideas? I would hate
to have to copy and paste the text into a new document and reformat
everything; there are probably 200 headings plus a lot of other styles.
Thanks.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Usually, saving in RTF or HTML will remove minor corruptions, but the
article linked below will provide a more comprehensive guide. See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/CorruptDoc.htm

 

[Klaus Linke]

Since it's been available, I prefer XML, sice it's both less likely to loose
features, and easier to read as a text file (to troubleshoot in case simply
saving in this format does not fix the problem).

Regards,
Klaus

Usually, saving in RTF or HTML will remove minor corruptions, but the
article linked below will provide a more comprehensive guide. See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/CorruptDoc.htm

 

[Terry Farrell]

Klaus

A good tip and rather obvious now that you have mentioned it. Thanks.

Terry

Since it's been available, I prefer XML, sice it's both less likely to
loose features, and easier to read as a text file (to troubleshoot in case
simply saving in this format does not fix the problem).

Regards,
Klaus