Corrupt table in Word. File not usable. Please help.

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barelyabovewater

Hello. I have Windows Vista on a laptop and Windows XP on my desk. Both
systems have been used for a Word document I've been working on.
This Word document has a contents table and one other freestanding table.
One of them has become corrupt -- I do not know which one.
I see a discussion string about this, but the solution proposed there does
not work for me. When I open the document, I get the error message about the
corrupt file, but the cursor doesn't work, page down doesn't work, the down
arrow doesn't work, the links above doesn't work. The moment I click on the
document to get a cursor, Word no longer responds (I get the not responding
message up top), and then it just sits there. If I click again anywhere, the
document goes gray, and all I can do is close it.
Can you help me recover this document or at least print it out?
Thank you so much for any help.
 
barelyabovewater said:
Hello. I have Windows Vista on a laptop and Windows XP on my desk. Both
systems have been used for a Word document I've been working on.
This Word document has a contents table and one other freestanding table.
One of them has become corrupt
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There are separate newsgroups for Microsoft Word, I suggest you post your
question in one of these two:

microsoft.public.word.tables
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...5e7-8dfc-4b39-af03-90114a872183&lang=en&cr=US

microsoft.public.word.newusers
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...dbc-7379-4bea-ac25-efca1e0b3128&lang=en&cr=US

Charlie42
 
Thank you, Charlie42. You directed me to the right place. I received some
help this morning and was able to recover my information. I appreciate it.
 
barelyabovewater said:
Thank you, Charlie42. You directed me to the right place. I received some
help this morning and was able to recover my information. I appreciate it.

Nice to hear that newsgroups are still useful.

Regards
 
Why would anybody use that?
Word has its own Detect and Repair

Open Word, click on HELP> Detect and Repair
 
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