Document corruption?

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wlm

I am working on a 500-page document that contains in tracked changes
has had portions pasted in from various sources, contains NUMEROUS (bu
simple) tables and has too many styles to mention (a recipe fo
disaster?). Just about every line item in every table (except for th
header rows) has automatic numbering applied to (which it should not).
applied a style to each of the cells to and saved the document, but whe
I reopened it, the numbers were back. I got the same result when
changed the text to Normal or just removed the numbering, or both - th
formatting didn't "stick". I do not get any error messages while workin
in the document nor upon opening it. I tried Open/Repair, but no repair
were noted. I am thinking about converting all the tables to text an
recreating the tables, but since I don't know what the cause of this is
I don't want to do all this work if some underlying issue is going t
surface later on down the road. I would eliminate all the extraneou
styles that are in the document as well. The person who gave me the fil
wants revert back to a previous version that was performing normally
but I think it would be just a matter of time before this same issu
surface again. Does anyone have any suggestions for cleaning up thi
document for good? We would like to retain the changes that have bee
tracked so far. Thank you
 
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Peter T. Daniels

One possibility would be to print a pdf of the document, showing markup,
so that you'd have a record of who made what changes (or even just make
a copy ["Save As"] of the document and stop using the old one), and then
Accept all the changes.
 

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