RE: Deleting an unused style hoses up tables

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Quick question: have you tried Open & Repair? Did this pick up anything?
Maybe the only way to solve this is to convert the tables to text. assign a
neutral style (ie a non-table style) and then revert back to Table and format
to clear any problems that may be assigned to the old table styles that are
still affecting these tables somehow.
Hopefully the tables are not too complex.
I have come across the problem that a style is indicated to be "not in use"
but still seem to cause problems. If you save the file as HTML and then
search the source code for the style name(s) to see if they are in fact still
in the document.

All the best
DeanH


"Nellie Nobody" wrote:

As I said below, I'm deleting styles that are unused. The tables already have
the correct styles.

"DeanH" wrote:

Try assigning the correct styles to the tables first, then delete the
superfluous styles.
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Hope this helps
DeanH


"Nellie Nobody" wrote:

I am dealing with every tech writer's nightmare scenario.

I am using Word 2003 to copyedit software specs edited by multiple authors
with limited Word skills. These specs are supposed to comply with a template
that is attached to the Agenda Wizard and that contains errors which appear
when I use Open and Repair. The authors based their specs directly on this
template or on similar docs originally based on this template. The authors
subsequently pasted large amounts of material from several other docs based
on other templates.

In my attempts to clean up these specs, I have tried to delete the hordes of
unused styles that have crept into them. However, deleting certain styles
hoses up all of the numerous tables in these specs, at best causing the
borders to disappear, at worst changing the styles within the tables to
bulleted, numbered, or heading styles. It's very difficult to reproduce this
problem as it occurs with any of the suspect styles and the results are
unpredictable.

I have tried everything I can think of to fix this problem. Can you point me
to any particular underlying issue? I'm not afraid to edit the RTF if I need
to.
.

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