Re: Contents of Word file disappeared

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"Neil UK" wrote:

| A colleague who never uses his dial-up account on his new Dell laptop, had
| typed in 32 pages in a Microsoft Word file. He saved his work about twice on
| every page he typed. Yesterday he switched on his computer, opened the same
| Word file and began typing material on the 32nd page. Suddenly the words all
| disappeared and he found himself staring at a Word file totally devoid of
| input. And it had gone down to being only one single page. We searched his
| relatively few files and folders but could not find any copy of the file. The
| filename is still listed in My Documents: the odd thing is that when one
| places the cursor over the filename, it indicates that the file contains 23.5
| kb of material.
|
| We dialled up, downloaded Google and then Google Desktop, but nowhere could
| we find any of the material. I do not know if this is an XP question, and it
| is something outside my experience. I would be grateful if anyone with some
| knowledge of this sort of problem could please advise.
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| Neil UK
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