Ok, thanks. Why do you think it isn't auto saving? It is apparently set to
save autorecover info every 8 minutes. I don't really care that his
particular document was lost but I would like to keep this from happening in
the future.

"Jezebel" wrote:

The file you've found is just a lock file, to prevent the main file being
opened by two users at once. It contains no useful content. The backup
file, if it exists, will be called 'Backup of Frankenstein.wbk'.




"Pamlwell" wrote in message
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Yesterday I was working on a document and left it for a while to eat
dinner.
When I came back Word was closed. I opened my file up again and although I
(supposedly) have autorecovery running I could not recover much of my work
(titled Frankenstein). I looked for the autorecovery file as per the
"troubleshoot file recovery" help file. I can't find any file titled
"Autorecovery save of Frankenstein," but I do have a file in the same
folder
called ~$ankenstein. Does anyone know what this file is? When I try to
open
it, it is comprised of unreadable characters and word asks me to find a
fomat
that makes it readable. Any help would be much appreciated, this is the
second time this has happened to me and I would like to keep it from
happening in the future.