[Lance]

No, it was not an email attachment...

And I did reopen it immediately after turning the laptop on again... I've
tried reopening via the File menu as well as directly from file manager.
Everytime none of my data is there! It's voodoo!

When you do a File-Save, doesn't Word TRULY modify the source file, or is it
writing the mods to a temp file of some sort until you CLOSE the doc????

I did a little test by opening a file, adding one sentence, then doing a
File-Save, then doing a CTRL-ALT-DEL and ending the Word task. Reopening the
doc revealed the new sentence was NOT there. What the !!!???

PS This is Word 97...

Parry

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

Was this file an email attachment?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




"Lance" wrote in message
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I was working on an existing file in Word over a period of 2 hours. I did a
File-Save from the menu several times.

Then, I had to go to the bathroom, so I figured I'd just press the power
key
on my new laptop thinking it would go to some sort of standby mode.
Anyhow, I
came back and pressed the power button and it did a complete restart...
oh,
well, I thought. I loaded word and opened my document and all of my 2
hours
work was GONE!

I don't get it. No, I did not shut Word down, but I did a FILE-SAVE twice
while working. Why isn't my stuff there? Where is it? If it is gone, does
that mean File-Save doens't truly work until you shut Word down? Bizarre.

Thanks for any help