Table problem in Word 2000 document--need assistance to open

Since it's password protected you might not want to do this...but
if you want to send it to me I'll try to open it. If I can open it and
resave it....that might fix it.

Hi Robin,

I think about the only thing you can do is recover the text, without any
structures or formatting. Once a document is at the point where it can't
be opened, File/Open with the "Recover text from any file" type is
pretty much all that's left to try.

There's a very slim chance that you might be able to use Insert/File
from within another document to open it, then save to RTF or HTML
format. But since the damage appears to be in a table structure, I'm not
optimistic.

I have a large document I'm trying to open that contains a few
tables. When I open it; then the program just goes to the hourglass
wait stage and eventually says the errors below. Then Word 2000
closes.

I went all through the Microsoft knowledge database and it said at
some point the table problem was fixed in Word XP.
Yet I took it to a friends house with Word XP and the same thing
happens.

I want to recover the document but as soon as I put in the password
and press enter only the first page appears and I can't scroll or save
the document afterward.

This is the error "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 I Clicked "OK" in the error
box and get this error signature


"ERROR SIGNATURE" app name winword.exe app ver 9.0.0.8216 Mod
Name: mso9.dll Mod Ver: 9.0.0.6926 Offset: 00010ecc

I hope someone can tell me how to recover from this.


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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