When ever I have more than one document open( in a new window) and i start
minimizing and maximizing the windows, word will close all the documents and
i loose everything and when i open word again it has to recover all the
documents. This only happens in word not excel or access. Anyone having this
problem???

Im using Microsoft Office XP home edition
Office 2003

Hi Lady E.,

What is your setting in Tools=Options=General for
'Windows in Taskbar'. Word and the other Office apps don't always setup the top most 'x' to close the same way (i.e. some apps have
one for each document as well as an x above it for the app).

However, if Word is 'crashing' which seems to be the case if it shows you the document recovery pane on restarting you could have
some left over temp files (use Start=Search with Word closed to delete the files found using
~$*.*;*.tmp
or an add-in could be interfering or Word needs to be repaired (from the Word help menu).

====
"LadyE" wrote in message ...
When ever I have more than one document open( in a new window) and i start
minimizing and maximizing the windows, word will close all the documents and
i loose everything and when i open word again it has to recover all the
documents. This only happens in word not excel or access. Anyone having this
problem???

Im using Microsoft Office XP home edition
Office 2003
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

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My setting for Windows in task bar is checked. And yes word is crashing. It
even hapends if i only have two word documents open. Sorry but im not a
"techy" can you explain to me again what I can do to try and fix it.
--
LE


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi Lady E.,

What is your setting in Tools=Options=General for
'Windows in Taskbar'. Word and the other Office apps don't always setup the top most 'x' to close the same way (i.e. some apps have
one for each document as well as an x above it for the app).

However, if Word is 'crashing' which seems to be the case if it shows you the document recovery pane on restarting you could have
some left over temp files (use Start=Search with Word closed to delete the files found using
~$*.*;*.tmp
or an add-in could be interfering or Word needs to be repaired (from the Word help menu).

====
"LadyE" wrote in message ...
When ever I have more than one document open( in a new window) and i start
minimizing and maximizing the windows, word will close all the documents and
i loose everything and when i open word again it has to recover all the
documents. This only happens in word not excel or access. Anyone having this
problem???

Im using Microsoft Office XP home edition
Office 2003
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx

Hi LE,

The article at http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm
explains the details of how to clean up the temp files.

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On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:27:02 -0800, "LadyE"
wrote:

My setting for Windows in task bar is checked. And yes word is crashing. It
even hapends if i only have two word documents open. Sorry but im not a
"techy" can you explain to me again what I can do to try and fix it.
--
LE


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi Lady E.,

What is your setting in Tools=Options=General for
'Windows in Taskbar'. Word and the other Office apps don't always setup the top most 'x' to close the same way (i.e. some apps have
one for each document as well as an x above it for the app).

However, if Word is 'crashing' which seems to be the case if it shows you the document recovery pane on restarting you could have
some left over temp files (use Start=Search with Word closed to delete the files found using
~$*.*;*.tmp
or an add-in could be interfering or Word needs to be repaired (from the Word help menu).

====
"LadyE" wrote in message ...
When ever I have more than one document open( in a new window) and i start
minimizing and maximizing the windows, word will close all the documents and
i loose everything and when i open word again it has to recover all the
documents. This only happens in word not excel or access. Anyone having this
problem???

Im using Microsoft Office XP home edition
Office 2003
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx