diff --git a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/sprm/TableSprmUncompressor.java b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/sprm/TableSprmUncompressor.java
index 87547565f..f8fc91f12 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/sprm/TableSprmUncompressor.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/sprm/TableSprmUncompressor.java
@@ -148,8 +148,10 @@ public class TableSprmUncompressor
 
         for (int x = 0; x < itcMac; x++)
         {
-          if(hasTCs) rgtc[x] = TableCellDescriptor.convertBytesToTC(grpprl,
-              offset + (1 + ( (itcMac + 1) * 2) + (x * 20)));
+          // Sometimes, the grpprl does not contain data at every offset. I have no idea why this happens.
+          if(hasTCs && offset + (1 + ( (itcMac + 1) * 2) + (x * 20)) < grpprl.length)
+            rgtc[x] = TableCellDescriptor.convertBytesToTC(grpprl,
+               offset + (1 + ( (itcMac + 1) * 2) + (x * 20)));
           else
             rgtc[x] = new TableCellDescriptor();
         }
diff --git a/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/data/AIOOB-Tap.doc b/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/data/AIOOB-Tap.doc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bfd5906ca
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diff --git a/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/usermodel/TestProblems.java b/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/usermodel/TestProblems.java
index 87b9754a6..8e7f47ed9 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/usermodel/TestProblems.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/usermodel/TestProblems.java
@@ -53,8 +53,25 @@ public class TestProblems extends TestCase {
     		Section s = r.getSection(x);
     		for (int y = 0; y < s.numParagraphs(); y++) {
     			Paragraph paragraph = s.getParagraph(y);
-    			System.out.println(paragraph.getCharacterRun(0).text());
+    			//System.out.println(paragraph.getCharacterRun(0).text());
     		}
     	}
     }
+
+	/**
+	 * AIOOB for TableSprmUncompressor.unCompressTAPOperation
+	 */
+	public void testSprmAIOOB() throws Exception {
+    	HWPFDocument doc = new HWPFDocument(new FileInputStream(dirname + "/AIOOB-Tap.doc"));
+    	
+    	Range r = doc.getRange();
+    	StyleSheet styleSheet = doc.getStyleSheet();
+    	for (int x = 0; x < r.numSections(); x++) {
+    		Section s = r.getSection(x);
+    		for (int y = 0; y < s.numParagraphs(); y++) {
+    			Paragraph paragraph = s.getParagraph(y);
+    			//System.out.println(paragraph.getCharacterRun(0).text());
+    		}
+    	}
+	}
 }