Fellow Forum Members,
I have a Word 2007 document that numbers 600 pages. I am not the original author, but was tasked to setup the entire document with Cross References for FIGURES, TABLES, and PARAGRAPH Numbers. Today, much to my dissapointment I discovered various pages are displaying sentences incorrectly. It's as though the file has become corrupt in some way. Below is an example of how the maintenance procedure is suppose to read:

(3) Remove power supply (1, Figure 42) from chassis.

Below is an example of the mysterious truncating this document is torturing me with. The pattern I have notice is that the truncation occurs at the beginning of figure fields as shown below:

Remove power supply (1,
(3) Figure 42) from chassis.


Obviously, for some reason I don't know this document is corrupt. My hope is that someone out there could share what troubleshooting strategies I should pursue to fix this problem.

My approach thus far has been to delete the corrupted data and rewrite it and re-establish the Figure Cross Reference fields. I'm being forced to do this because trying to place the cursor in front of the figure field is not possible. Any data you try to input ends up inside the figure field itself.



Other anamolies I have noticed are duplicate figures. I also tried opening the document via a OPEN REPAIR operation with no success.

Any advice or opinions will be tremedously appreciated. My hope is I could salvage this document.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.