Does the file look correct if you open it from the MRU list at the bottom of
the File menu? If so, in the File | Open dialog, change the "Files of type"
setting from "Recover Text from Any File" to "All Word Documents."

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"Gus" wrote in message
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I'm using WinNT with Word 97. I have lost the table. What I mean is that
tables do not show up. All the text is there, left justified, but not in a
table format. If I go in and create a new doc with a table and save it.
Then open it the table is not there. Anyone have any ideas as to why this
is happening. I will add that just before this happened I was trying to
open a Word text doc. I did something and don't know what.