Whenever I save a Word document on my hard drive, it saves an extra copy with
~$ replacing the first 2 letters of the file. Doesn't happen when saving on
floppy disks.

This is normal behaviour. These are Word's temporary files and they should
be removed if Word is closed properly.

Never ever read from, write to or print from floppy with Word. This is the
most certain method of ensuring document corruption. Copy to the hard disc
and work on the document from there.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




badwrc wrote:
Whenever I save a Word document on my hard drive, it saves an extra
copy with ~$ replacing the first 2 letters of the file. Doesn't
happen when saving on floppy disks.

I may have miswritten. when I wrote floppy, I meant the generic term and I
use zip disks. All I do is back up on my zip disk after I backup on my hard
drive. All reading, modifying, ect. is done from my hard drive. I write the
document, save as, and when I look at the files with explorer, it has the
extra file even before I back up on zip. I hope you don't mean not to back
up on my zip.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is normal behaviour. These are Word's temporary files and they should
be removed if Word is closed properly.

Never ever read from, write to or print from floppy with Word. This is the
most certain method of ensuring document corruption. Copy to the hard disc
and work on the document from there.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




badwrc wrote:
Whenever I save a Word document on my hard drive, it saves an extra
copy with ~$ replacing the first 2 letters of the file. Doesn't
happen when saving on floppy disks.

See €œDescription of how Word creates temporary files€� at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"badwrc" wrote in message
...
I may have miswritten. when I wrote floppy, I meant the generic term and
I
use zip disks. All I do is back up on my zip disk after I backup on my
hard
drive. All reading, modifying, ect. is done from my hard drive. I write
the
document, save as, and when I look at the files with explorer, it has the
extra file even before I back up on zip. I hope you don't mean not to
back
up on my zip.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is normal behaviour. These are Word's temporary files and they
should
be removed if Word is closed properly.

Never ever read from, write to or print from floppy with Word. This is
the
most certain method of ensuring document corruption. Copy to the hard
disc
and work on the document from there.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




badwrc wrote:
Whenever I save a Word document on my hard drive, it saves an extra
copy with ~$ replacing the first 2 letters of the file. Doesn't
happen when saving on floppy disks.

For the purpose of backing up, copy the files to your zip from the hard
drive. Always work from the hard drive.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




badwrc wrote:
I may have miswritten. when I wrote floppy, I meant the generic term
and I use zip disks. All I do is back up on my zip disk after I
backup on my hard drive. All reading, modifying, ect. is done from
my hard drive. I write the document, save as, and when I look at the
files with explorer, it has the extra file even before I back up on
zip. I hope you don't mean not to back up on my zip.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is normal behaviour. These are Word's temporary files and they
should be removed if Word is closed properly.

Never ever read from, write to or print from floppy with Word. This
is the most certain method of ensuring document corruption. Copy to
the hard disc and work on the document from there.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




badwrc wrote:
Whenever I save a Word document on my hard drive, it saves an extra
copy with ~$ replacing the first 2 letters of the file. Doesn't
happen when saving on floppy disks.