table error

[Tricia Raich]

We have created a manual in Word (2002),and now when we
try to open it we are getting this error message:

"A table in this document has been ocrrupted. To recover
the contents of the table select the table and choose
Convert Table to text from the Table Menu"

How can we correct this problem. The first column has
icons in it - the second column a description of the icon.

 

[Phil Melek[MSFT]]

I found the following:

The table corruption may be located in an invisible table in the Word document.

Word 2000
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This table can sometimes be located using code.

1) Open the doc in WD2000.
2) Open the VBE
3) View>Immediate Window
4) Type activedocument.Tables(1).Select<enter>
5) Switch to the document
6) If the cursor is not visible in the document, it has selected an invisible
table
7) Issue the command Tables>Delete>Table
8) If the selected table is visible in the document, return to the VBA and
change activedocument.Tables(1).Select<enter>
to
activedocument.Tables(2).Select<enter>, repeating until the "invisible" table
is found.

Or you can do a loop looping through each table in the document and selecting
it. Step through the macro and when the selected table is not visible, break
out of the macro and delete the table.

Word 2002
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Word2002 repairs this damage when an open and repair is done