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Style previews are totally unreadable in Word for Mac
Does this happen with some documents or with all of them?
I recall reports stating that the Styles pane may be broken in Word for Mac for some documents that were not originally created in Word.
You are right. I just tested a new document with the same fonts and I don't get the error.
The original document was Pages converted to Word. It's a shame because cutting and pasting text from the broken styles into a fresh document doesn't fix it. Creating new styles in the broken document doesn't fix it.
The document is incredibly long. Is there any work around that doesn't involve having to reformat it from scratch?
This suggested fix below is for Word for Windows; I don't know that it works on a Mac, but it would be worth trying.
When a document is damaged, try copying all the content, not including the final paragraph mark of the document, into a new, blank document and see if that overcomes the issue.
To show/hide nonprinting characters, you should be able to click the ¶ icon on the Home tab, or enable nonprinting characters in Word Preferences.
Perhaps you have already tried this, unsuccessfully?
