Monitoring the Health of Your Document

You plan, you organize, you stay in control of your document, but still something goes wrong. Perhaps you inherited a document from someone else or added content to a document from another source. What do you do when the document refuses to behave?

Giving your document a time-out probably isn’t an effective way to resolve the issue, but there’s usually an easy solution.

What Is Document Corruption?

Actually, let’s begin with what corruption is not. Corrupt is, without a doubt, the most frequently misused word in document production. Yes, documents and content can become corrupt. But, just because something has gone wrong in your document doesn’t mean it’s corrupt.

The majority of problem documents I’ve seen across ...

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