Word 2010 Document Corrupt Header/toc Information

Hello experts, I have a word file that appears to have been corrupted. We were working on it through SharePoint and at some point the style information seems to have been corrupted. When you use the style inspector and click on a location in the text it will say the correct information. For example a level 2 heading will look and appear as a level 2 heading in the text and have the correct style attached. However, when you use the navigation pane or create a table of contents nothing is indented as it should be (level 2 is not subordinate to level 1). I have read that there are table of contents styles in Word but I don't know how to change these. Does anyone know if this would fix the issue? I tried manually to 'reset' a few styles (highlight text and reclick 'level 2 header' ) which fixed the issue in that instance. However, this is a long document (150 pages) and I wouldn't want to do this for the whole document. If anyone has some advice it would be greatly appreciated,

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Answer #1: Posted by hallmarlarsson on April 25th, 2015 2:54 PM

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To do this

Open the Tools menu. Click Options. Click the File Locations tab. If the space next to AutoRecover files is blank, then your data is lost. If there is a location, go to that location and open the document.

How to turn on AutoRecovery

Select Tools, Options, Check 'Save AutoRecover info every:' and provide the interval.

Then click on the File Locations tab, Select AutoRecover Files, Click on "Modify..." & provide a location for its to save the files.

How does it work...

When AutoRecover is turned on, the changes you make are saved at set intervals in a separate, temporary recovery file. Then, if you have to restart Word or your computer without saving your work, Word automatically opens the recovery file. In some cases it doesn't. In such situations you have to try out the above solution. The recovery file contains your changes up until the last time AutoRecover saved the document. For example, if you set AutoRecover to save every 7 minutes, you don't lose more than 7 minutes of work. All documents that were open at the time of the power failure or similar problem appear for you. Only changes you made after the last AutoRecover save are lost.

Resources which are accessible to get more info about word file corruption and restoration and offer another variants/solutions...

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-recover-corrupted-word-files/

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