Understanding Document Corruption

macropod · #3 08-02-2015, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Lagrange

I've been working on a large project and, unfortunately, it became corrupt. When I copy parts of the document to another blank document, it allows me to save it; however, after I add a particular section, it no longer lets me save the document (I'm assuming it becomes corrupted again).

The solution may depend on the form of corruption.

Corrupt documents can often be 'repaired' by inserting a new, empty, paragraph at the very end, copying everything except that new paragraph to a new document based on the same template (headers & footers may need to be copied separately), closing the old document and saving the new one over it. However, that won't necessarily be effective if the document contains corrupt tables.

Corrupt tables can often be 'repaired' by converting the tables to text and back again or by saving the document in RTF format, closing the document then re-opening it and re-saving in the doc(x) format

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