Description of corrupt document behavior:
 LK> 1) Addition of extra section breaks.  These section 
 LK> 2) Addition of extra field codes.  These field codes 
 LK> 3) The final corruption is a keystroke behavior that I 
 LK> have personally experienced.  At certain places in the 
 LK> document, pressing the BACKSPACE key will delete 
 LK> several words up to half a paragraph. 
I've seen 1) and 3), haven't seen 2, but it makes as much sense as the other 
two. 
  
Microsoft is remarkably unhelpful with solutions; they recognize the 
existence of the problem, but the best they can suggest is save it as a text 
file and salvage what you can.  Bleah.
  
For documents under a couple of pages, I found it easier to retype the 
document than to hassle with what follows.  What I give next, however, did 
work to fix the documents with better than 95% success.  
  
The fix I used when all else failed:
  
Save the document as a Word for DOS 6.0 document.  Create a new style sheet 
that incorporates the styles in the document as a separate *.sty document.  
Close the document (_don't_ save it as Word 6.0).
  
Open the document.  You will have lost all rule lines and cell borders, and 
the line spacing of paragraphs will have gone funny.  The line spacing can 
generally be fixed with a couple of search and replaces.  Also, all page 
breaks will have hard page breaks, and section breaks may have page breaks in 
addition.
  
As you can see, this takes some time to clean up.  The up side is that this 
procedure preserves styles, and generally restores the document.
  
If you've got a corrupt template (if the corrupt documents are consistently 
from the same template), it's probably worth recreating the template.
  
Good luck!
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