I've attached a template and have been applying styles to a 50 page document
that has maybe 30 figures and 30 tables. The first page is a massive table
that looks like an engineering drawing.  About half way thru the doc, I
defined a new paragraph style NOT in a table and the application went into
some kind of ballistic mode and reformatted ALL the tables in the document
such that the display showed rows and cells resizing independently. I
couldn't interrupt the operation, and then the system hung.

I closed out of Word, reopened and recovered the doc under a different name.
Now, no matter which version of the doc I open, I get the error message that
a table is corrupt, "odd" number of pages in this document (sometimes 8
pages, or 3 pages,or 130 pages) and each row became a separate 1/2 inch wide
table separated by a paragraph mark.

Tables in 2003 behave differently than those in previous versions of
Office/Word (a 18 year FT user for my job). What is with the 'text box'
behavior of tables (the white resize grab boxes in the corners of a table)?

What caused this outrageous unrecoverable behavior? Upoon opening
eitherversion of the document, a dialog displays one of the tables has become
corrupt...

I already tried the MVP suggestion to save as web page, and only get the
first 3 rows of the front page. I didn't touch or redefine any of the styles
in that first table....