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I've found Word 2002's autorecover unreliable and slightly annoying. I'm
not sure it's worth having, especially if you have good computing
habits.
Am curious, though. Imagine, if you will, that Word 2002 chokes and
departs leaving a busted DOC and a couple of TMPs. Subsequently, when
you open the DOC, let's say it doesn't recognize or offer to use the
TMPs (assuming they are autorecover bits). Is there a way to force Word
to consider and incorporate the data from these TMP files?
-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- book -dot- com]
What the OS DOES do and SHOULD do can be miles apart and if the shutdown
was
a crash or BSOD, they could be there when you crank back up. Just don't
open
Word before recovering the scraps...move them to another
directory...Word
could make then go away.
Most times they are scraps. However, look for the biggest one in the
general
timeframe. Sometimes I've been lucky enough to get back almost all of
the
document, and if you open in Word rather than NP, sometimes you can get
formatting too.
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