tmp files are not necessarily copies of the documents they belong to. If
Word crashed and you don't have save autorecovery information active (or it
hasn't saved the autorecovery information) and you have not been regularly
saving the document and have no backups, then you are out of luck. To avoid
this problem in the future see
http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


PML wrote:
Hi, I have a .tmp file that I am trying to open (I lost my original
work when WORD crashed). When I try to open it, WORD prompts me with
a File Conversion window and it just looks like gibberish. Is there
a way to view .tmp files or decode them?

Thanks,
PML