Did you perhaps open the document using the "Recover Text from Any File"
setting? As for the creation of .tmp files, this is normal; they will be
deleted when you close the file. You don't even see them unless you are
viewing All Files in Word's File Open dialog.

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"Slow Learner" wrote in message
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I have a 66 page document that contains a 3 column table of data that has
been scanned into Word2002.
I formatted the tables after scanning (each page scanned created a table)
to
fit on the page (row height, width etc.) so that each table is the same.
I
also removed all paragraph markers within the cells of the tables and
between
the tables.
I saved then printed, proofed and saved the document.
I opened the supposed 66 page document and found that the formatting was
all
gone within the tables and the document was now 50 some pages! in length.
I began going through the document and reformatting using the print
version
as a guide (no longer have the figures for making the rows-columns line
up)
and looked at the directory where I was saving it to only to see that
there
are ~*.tmp files being created (I noticed these there when I looked after
opening a 55 page document but deleted them) Now they are coming back a
new
one each change I make to this document.
Why would this happen in the first place? Is the document toast and
should
I simply start again?