More than likely, however, Grandpa pressed Ctrl+A, then wiped out the entire
document with the next key he pressed.

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"Anne Troy" wrote in message
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Open the document, Ctrl+A and make the font color black. If that doesn't
work, Ctrl+A, Format--Font and make sure Hidden is not checked. That's
about all I can think of.
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Anne Troy
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"Grandpa Elmo" wrote in message
news
While typing my fingers hit a key in the bottom row, like Ctrl or Alt.
All
my type disappeared, tho the directory filename still lists 263 kb as
the
file size. So I don't think it's all lost, just not visible when I open
the
file. It was a big file and the only version I can go back to is about
one-third of the complete file.