This is why we recommend never saving directly to removable media. Always
save to the hard drive and COPY to the removable media - there's a macro to
facilitate that at
http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm 
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Can you copy the file to your hard drive? If not you *may* be able to
recover the file with file recovery software. If you can see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site
http://word.mvps.org
"sbr4tdy" wrote in message
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.docx
usb stick
my son saved it
"macropod" wrote:
Hi sbr4tdy,
What file format - doc/docx? Is this on your HDD or a USB stick? Do you
have backups - if not, why not?
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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]
"sbr4tdy" wrote in message
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Hours of work - it will not open. Is there a workaround to get to the
data?
Please - I am computer literate - just tell me how to get to the data -
outside word? outside microsoft - I can reformat it just don't want to
lose
it all.....
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