Hi Robert,
Those are 'owner' or 'in use' indicators that Word sends out to Windows when you open a document. Those arent' actually your
documents and they're not intended to be opened. It's one of a series of temporary files that Word uses to do its thing. See if
the information in this article helps explain Word's temp files:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211632/en-us?FR=1
Periodically I use Start=>Run and search for file names found with this search string
~$*.*;*.tmp
and send them off to the recycle bin. A lot of them will be Word 'clutter' from times when a save didn't go right, or Word
shutdown, just because it could <g>.
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Suddenly some of my Word documents are appearing with ~$ in front of the
file name, and I cannot open them properly. Wne I do, I get my name and a
lot of little boxes. Can you help me get back my documents please?
Thank you, Robert >>
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I hope this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP
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