Do stress to your users that autorecover even when turned on is no guarantee
of recovering the document. There is no substitute for regular saving. See
also 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



wrote:
Thanks for your answers. It may not be the dms, but my testing seems
to point that way. If I enable autorecover in word, then close and
reopen, the setting stays (as expected). If I open a doc from my dms,
the setting gets turned off. If I do FileNew from the opened dms
document, and check the settings of the new blank document,
autorecover is turned on. If I switch back to the dms document,
autorecover is turned off. That's why I was wondering if word stored
that setting in the document. Otherwise, how could the autorecover
setting be different for two separate documents?

The dms executes quite a bit of code before the document is opened.
Custom doc properties get created/populated. Fields get updated.
Lots of stuff happens. I need to step through the code to find out
where it might be happening.

Do you happen to know offhand the vba to toggle the autorecover
setting?