hello:
my customer has called this morning and says when she goes to open her saved
word documents, there is the symbol ~$ in front of her documents. I have
seen this before on my unit also. Is this a backup document, or is this when
a documents hasn't been closed properly? It showed up today but she was out
of the office yesterday?
Thank you for your assistance.

steve

Files named with ~$ are Word's working scratch files while a document is
open. Noramlly, these are deleted when a document is closed, but will remain
if Word crashes, or is terminated with Task Manager. If no word files are
open, these can be safely deleted.
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Ted

This is the "owner file" created when you create or open a document. For
more information, see €œDescription of how Word creates temporary files€� at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632

Ordinarily the owner file is deleted when you close a document. If Word
hangs, the system crashes, or you lose power, these temporary files will
remain and can be deleted with impunity when the file is not open; see
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"cush63" wrote in message
...
hello:
my customer has called this morning and says when she goes to open her
saved
word documents, there is the symbol ~$ in front of her documents. I have
seen this before on my unit also. Is this a backup document, or is this
when
a documents hasn't been closed properly? It showed up today but she was
out
of the office yesterday?
Thank you for your assistance.

steve

thank you for your help.

steve

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

This is the "owner file" created when you create or open a document. For
more information, see €œDescription of how Word creates temporary files€� at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632

Ordinarily the owner file is deleted when you close a document. If Word
hangs, the system crashes, or you lose power, these temporary files will
remain and can be deleted with impunity when the file is not open; see
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"cush63" wrote in message
...
hello:
my customer has called this morning and says when she goes to open her
saved
word documents, there is the symbol ~$ in front of her documents. I have
seen this before on my unit also. Is this a backup document, or is this
when
a documents hasn't been closed properly? It showed up today but she was
out
of the office yesterday?
Thank you for your assistance.

steve