You could try reinstalling Word (that's all there is to 'repairing' it); but
the problem is more likely the change in the way tables are handled between
W2000 and W2003 -- this was a fairly major change, trying to deal with the
difference between tables as handled in a document and tables as rendered on
web pages.

W2003 is unhappy with very long tables (ie spanning a lot of pages) and
tables with complicated merged and split cells.

Long-term, the fix is to stop using tables for page layout purposes (as has
been the change with HTML over the past few years): use them only for
tabulated data as such. If the problem is multi-page tables, split them into
shorter sections. Also make sure you don't have style challenges like
several pages of consective 'Keep with next' paragraphs within the tables.

Or why not just go back to using W2000?

I have no idea what 'iteration of table formats' means.





"A DeLew" wrote in message
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I am a long-time user of Word and edit technical training documents that
uses table cells for text and lots of different iterations of table
formats. Our corporation just loaded Word 2003 and now, suddenly, I'm
having a huge problem with corrupt tables. The documents being sent to me
are not corrupt, but something is happening that results in Word assessing
some, many or all of the tables as corrupt. If I do an "Open and Repair"
Words repair makes a huge mess of the entire document. Any ideas where I
start? Is it possible I need to get Technical Support to do a "repair" of
my Word app?