[Terry Farrell]

You have misunderstood AutoSave files. These are for Word use so that if
your computer crashes whilst Word is open, it will recover the document that
was open using the .asd (AutoSave) file. It is not designed to be used any
other way. You need to use File, SaveAs and choose doc format in order to
save the document to your HDD with the doc extension.

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Don" wrote in message
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I have a new computer with Vista. I installed word 2002 on it and it works
fine, except my autosave files turn out to be in a stange file extension,
namely " .AS$ " . This happens even though I have the default word
format
*.doc selected. I can capture these files in my backup folder, but I
haven't been able to open them with anything, so far. Formerly I used
word
'97 and the autosave files were in an .asd extension, which I could
open.
I've tried to find out what these .AS$ files are, but can't find anything
about them. I'm a writer and I want to keep the minute-by-minute backup
working and useful, as it was when I used word '97. (I use 12 ghosts
backup
software to capture the word 2002 autosave files.)

Thanks in advance for any help.

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