Strange blue background.

[Jim]

One segment of a Word (2003) .doc I've been working on is a 3-column table
that spills over 4 pages. In connection with some other troubles I had with
the document, posted earlier today, I had to copy-and-paste a good part of
this document onto a new 'blank page' to avoid some corrupted part of the
..doc file. Lo and behold, the entire 3-column table came through the copy
process with white writing against a dark blue background. This was not a
formatting issue; Format/Background was set to No Fill, font was black, and
this section did not yield to any of my many attempts to fix this by
reformatting. I finally created another 3-column table and copied and pasted
the text from the blue one, one cell at a time. Tedious but it did the job;
the text copied fine, the blue background stayed with the old table. I
really wonder what could have crept into the file that would turn the
background of the old table blue with no trace of any formatting properties!

 

[Jim]

Well, it did it again. I had to copy a 3-page table from one .doc to
another, and this time the copy had a gray background that wouldn't go away.
I still had the original on the clipboard, so I just did an Undo Paste and
pasted it again. Worked fine the second time, no background. Wha IS going
on?

 

[Jay Freedman]

It sounds like your recovery from the original corrupt document brought along
some less serious part of the corruption. I can't say I've ever seen or heard of
that particular form of corruption, but misplaced bits in the binary part of the
file can cause all sorts of peculiar behavior.

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm for some suggested
procedures.

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[Jim]

Thanks, Jay; some good tips in that citation and links therefrom.