word 2000 text gone, replaced by code

[Ed908]

Hi

I've had this problem a few times. Sometimes when I send a document to the
printer, it causes word to crash - this is probably a corrupt printer driver,
I'm told.

Trouble is, today it happened after I'd sent five pages of dictation to the
printer and wiped the tape the dictation was on. Word crashed and when I
opened it up again and found the document I was working on, prefixed by a
dollar sign, all the text was gone and I was left with a few lines of rounded
squares.

Is there anything I can do to recover the document, or do I have to go on
bended knee to my boss and ask him to re-dictate the five pages?

Any help is much appreciated, thanks.

 

[Anne Troy]

Sorry, Ed. I can loan you my kneepads, tho.
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Any file prefixed by a dollar sign is a temp file, not your document. Keep
looking. But if Word crashed while the document was open, you should have
been presented with an AutoRecover file when you next started Word.