This document may be corrupt error message ...

[Joan]

My document has the "This document may be corrupt error
message ...". I followed the instructions in Microsoft
Knowledge Base Article 241581. When I input the line "?
activedocument.listtemplates.count" in Visual Basic it
shows there are almost 2000 occurences of list templates
in my document. However, my document doesn't have any
VISIBLE list templates. How can I view/delete these
hidden list templates? I am so frustrated....

 

[Alan]

Hi Joan:

When you say you can't see the list templates, does that
mean you have no bulleting or numbering of paragraphs?

Or just that you can't see, for instance, List Template
number 456? -- in which case, this is a problem everyone
shares.

At any rate, the list template count is largely a measure
of the history of the document, not necessarily how it
looks now. Certain maneuvers can lead to the build-up of
these "templates," -- in particular, if the person uses
the toolbar bullets or numbers, and switches them back and
forth and whatnot.

Using styles such as List Number or List Bullet generally
is a cleaner way to work. (If you do use List Bullet, be
sure to modify out the "Automatically update" attribute.
It mostly would cause trouble.)

I seem to recall someone posted that if you do a Save As
and change file type to Web Page, and then go and Save As
back to a Word document, this can strip out excess list
templates. So you could try that.

Do you actually know the history of the document?

If it were mine, I'd probably lean towards doing what we
call a "strip and rebuild" whereby you Copy the document,
except the last paragraph mark, go to a fresh document,
and use Edit / Paste Special / Unformatted Text to dump
just the text in there -- and all numbers are manualized --
without formatting.

You then have to re-format the document, but at least you
have a healthy structure.