Finding a corrupted table in MS-Word

[Guest]

I have a large MS-Word document that contains over 100 separate tables. I
have inherited it from an unknown owner. When I open the doc, an error
message appears telling me the doc has a corrupted table. I am asked to
select the corrupted table; choose "Convert Table" from the Table menu; and
then recover it. But I don't know how to find the corrupted table. Is there
an easy way to find this needle in a haystack? I don't want to have to go
page-by-page; transfer the contents to a new MS-Word doc; save it; re-open
it; and see if I get the "Corrupt File" message as my only way to diagnose
this problem. Can anybody help me?

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Andrew,

If the tables are uniform (= no merged cells), and don't have complicated
formatting, it may be simplest to convert all tables to text, then back to
table, with a macro.

If that isn't an option, you'd need to do a binary search:
Save both the first and the second half in separate files, and check which
half gives the error message.
Repeat until you've located the corrupted table.

Regards,
Klaus