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* Reboot your machine and try to open it again.
* Run scandisk on the document and try again.
* Look in the Windows/Temp directory for files with ~ in the beginning of
the name. Open it with wordpad. Also look in your documents directory
(where the file is usually saved).
* Ask the system administrator to restore the file from backup. This will
only restore the previous day's copy, though.
Other than that, there's no hope. I feel your pain. A good practice is to
save the document at various important intervals under a different name,
like printvariables1, printvariables2. Corruption is pretty common with big
documents, especially if it contains several sets of formatting.
Autosave only helps if Word/Windows crashed while you were working. After
reboot Word "remembers" the last autosave...if you're lucky, it's complete.
Martie Brown MCSE
> Can anyone help with a MS Word 98 problem?
> I was working on a 70ish page Word document when it crashed..."not
unusual"
> I hear you say... ...except now I can't open the document without it
> crashing...does anyone know how I can rescue my document?
>
> TIA
> Grace
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