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I was working on a document in MS Word when all of a sudden the whole formatting went lost. I don't remember the exact sequence of operations I did, and I understand this could be a problem, but I tried the undo button up to the first operation and still the formatting was lost. I tried to exit without saving but still, opening it again gave the wrong formatting. How can it be? Is there a way to get the original formatting back?
By formatting I mean, data into tables, table structures, alignment, index and everything in the document. I tried the "Change style" trick but that recovered only the text, tables, figures and the chapters' superscript at the beginning of every page are still formatted in the wrong way.
I even tried to open the document from another PC but still, formatting was lost.
The only fishy operation I remember is that I converted the document in a .pdf, though the .docx is still there untouched it doesn't have the formatting.
I'm using MS Word 2011 and tried even MS Word 2007.
Thanks for your help
Luigi Tiburzi
Posted 2012-10-07T10:54:56.887
Reputation: 177
Word 2011 and 2007 - So you're editing on both the Mac and Windows versions? – Karan – 2012-10-07T21:24:55.293
What exactly had happened to the tables? Did they only had lost their layout (fonts, border colour, cell orientation) or also their structure (i.e. they are no longer tables, but a chunk text)? This might be a clue to what have happened. – Adam Ryczkowski – 2012-10-08T08:58:05.627
Yes I'm editing on both the Mac and the Windows versions. Tables, and text in general have lost their shape, for example Chapter became C (newline) hapter and stuff like that, the problems are only misalignment and bold... there are no such things as having a plain text document – Luigi Tiburzi – 2012-10-08T18:46:53.913