Repairing an error in word 2003 document

[Guest]

I wrote a long article (well 35 pages single spaced) with photos and foreign
fonts. It displays and prints fine but when I try to convert footnotes to
endnotes it goes into an endless loop (that is after 1500 pages I stop the
conversion). I mentioned this in here this summer and the response was that
somewhere my document is corrupted. But I cannot see where. Respondents
suggested that I convert to HTML and then back as that often repairs a
document. I did that but no help. What can I do? A publisher wants the
article for submission but the footnotes must be changed to endnotes. Do I
just have to do 155 notes by hand?
Michael Dick
Siena College
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Your doc is certainly corrupt, though there are more things to try than Save
As HTML, though that's usually best.

The first way to check for a corrupt document is to
copy the entire thing, *excluding* the last paragraph mark, into a new
document. That last paragraph mark holds a lot of information which can get
corrupted, and copying the text into a document with a fresh one keeps your
formatting, but can fix some glitches. If you have multiple sections, you
may want to do this for every section.

A paragraph mark is a ¶. Click on ¶ on the standard toolbar to show
nonprinting characters, including paragraph marks.

Do you have lots of tables? Tables can corrupt too, try converting them to
Text and back to Table again.

I would try all these things on a copy, just to be safe.

See this link for further things you can try:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

DM