Bizarre Thing Word for Mac 2011 Restore Standard Fonts

I don't know where to post this. I can't find a section for discussing Word for Mac 2011 even though a bazillion people probably use it. So I'm hoping someone who does will read this and give me some insight.
I've been having a terrible time opening Word. The W just bounces around on the dock a few times and then settles down and it never opens. When I try to open a specific document through Finder, it's completely non-responsive. So I read on this forum that the issue could be checking your Font Book and possibly restoring standard fonts. So I thought I had nothing to lose (HAH!) and I went to Font Book and did the Font Validation test. I didn't have any serious errors but I thought what the heck and I clicked the box that said Restore Standard Fonts. Then I tried to open Word and it opened flawlessly. Yippee, or so I thought.
Two days later I tried to open a Word document that is 433 pages long. Well guess what, now it's only 376 pages. I was completely freaking out. What could have happened? I scrolled through it and each page is there sequentially. I don't understand how this could have occurred. Could "Restore Standard Fonts" have done something to the spacing? Could it have removed certain letters? I can't see anything missing, but how could I have lost 57 pages?
Well luckily I had an old hardcopy of the document and was able to see that prior to this Restore Standard Font action, there were 24 double-spaced lines to a page and now there are 28. So I think that's the explanation, although I can't be completely sure, unless I review the entire document word for word.
So can someone please explain why this happened? Why does Restore Standard Fonts add lines to a page? Are the letters smaller? Is my document okay? Or should I not have done what I did.

macette1976 wrote:
I don't know where to post this. I can't find a section for discussing Word for Mac 2011 even though a bazillion people probably use it.
These forums are really for Apple products. MS runs its own forums which focus entirely on its products, where you might want to also search/ask:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macword

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