master doc table text formatting

[anna]

Using Word 2003 professional. I have a master doc divided
into 23 subdocs (300 pages). I made a template for this
and had a problem with bullets appearing in tables
without me adding them there in a few weeks ago. Made new
table styles and reapplied them to the doc and all was
fine for a few weeks.

I have two types of tables, both based on table grid. One
has bold font in the top row, the other has bold font in
the left column. Both tables use Tw Cen MT Bold Condensed
as default font.

Problem now is that the bold font has now turned into
wingdings and the regular has turned into TNR.
Additionally, on some tables, if I highlight them
and "clear formatting", the text all goes to TNR, but NOT
with every table. I went back to the template to start
again like before, but it has not worked this time.

I noticed this after inserting a visio flowchart as an
object. Don't know if this is affecting it, but I'd
rather not take it out.

Many thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Jonathan West]

Anna,

I suspect you are running into the problems that are all-too-common with
master documents

These articles may be of interest

Why Master Documents corrupt
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

How to recover a Master Document
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm

300 pages isn't all that large, Word should be able to manage that with a
single file. Once you are satisfied that all the subdocuments are OK again,
you might want to merge them into a single file.

If you want to keep them separate, but still have a consolidated TOC and
index for them all while having the pages numbered consecutively throughout,
this article shows you how.

Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=148