"Table is corrupt" & Word crash

[Ned Trilby]

Hello, Can anyone suggest a solution - when I open my document i get
the message:
"Dialogue box message: "A table in this document has
become corrupted. To recover the contents of the table:
select the table and choose Convert Table to Text from
the Table Menu"
- but before I can scroll through the dicument to identify thr
offending table Word closes down.
TIA, Ned

 

[Doug Robbins]

You can narrow down the search for the corrupted table by splitting the
document in half and determine which half causes a crash, then split that
half into two and determine which of those two is the problem and so on.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Ned Trilby]

Thanks Doug,
It sounds like the "binary chop" I used to use a long time ago to
check batch files - but how can I "split" a word ".doc" file into two?
Ned

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Make copies and delete the first half of one and the second half of the
other. Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[Ned Trilby]

It sounds so simple Suzanne, but did you not fully read my original posting:

" but before I can scroll through the document to identify the
offending table Word closes down."
Ned

 

[Jon Weaver]

Ned,
Try this Knowledge Base Article that has links to how to approach damaged
(corrupt) documents in different versions of Word:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290932&Product=wd2002

Read the section entitled "Things to Try If the Document Opens But Shows
Unexpected Behavior"; I would suggest saving the document as a web page
rather than in rich text format (.rtf).

Good luck.

Jon

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Then see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm