Checked recycle bin, the antivirus is up to date, macro
protection is on, windows XP is up to date from the
windows website, they have a great firewall on, and also
ad-aware for spyware protection. We have searched for
*.doc, *.bak, and *.wbk, everything.

A lot of the word docs are still there, it just there are
a few selectively gone for good. That is the puzzling
part. Anyway, this is confusing.


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You don't mention checking the Recycle Bin for them, or
what the
status of your antivirus/macro protection is/was, and
several
other things like SP status, hot fixes, and updates to
firewalls,
adware finders, trojan protection, etc. Are you
positive you
didn't pick up a Word macro virus? Do you have any
recently
departed people with a grudge?
Are you certain the disk searches were done
competently? What
happens if you search for say *.doc? How about the
*.bak and
*.wbk and Backup Of*.* files? Are any of them still
there? Any
chance what you're looking for are .DOT files and
not .DOC?