I agree with Ray's recommendations. Also, do a seach for files
beginning with "Word Work file". These are automatic backups which Word
keeps, depending on your settings. They are often stored in the
Microsoft User Data directory.
You could also try opening the corrupted file with TextEdit, Pages, Open
Office, etc. If you are successful, save it as RTF, then open the RTF in
Word.
Hope this helps.
With books as large as yours, it can be helpful to keep each chapter as
a separate document, and link it together using the Master Document
feature, or just copy the chapters together again once you're just about
ready to print.
Good luck
Rob
Peter Bull wrote:
I have just opened a book I have been revising in Word. A message came
up saying there was some corruption but it managed to open it.
However, the 135 pages has blown out to 465 because Word has lost all
the tables so the info in the tables has been put one line under
another and double spaced.
Is there some way I could go revert to the last saved version? If so,
it would save me a huge amount of work of course. And no, I don't
have a backup copy.
iMac, OS 10.5.8. Word X for Mac.
Peter Bull
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