Re: How do I link a save ~$ file to the original document in Word?

$*.doc files are called Owner Files and they only contain the user
info of the individual that currently has the document open. It's this
file that triggers the "file is in use" message.

If you are trying to recover a document then take a look at this
article for the various temp files Word creates and see if you can
locate them:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q211632

Although based on my experience, ~wrd*.tmp is the only temp file that
you can successfully recover the entire document, including
formatting, from. The others may contain only portions of your
document.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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"Brett Bender" <Brett Bender@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:9FE55F84-4D74-4B71-9F73-A51FFAC6133E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I was working on a document named (for example) Bob Was Here.doc in
Word.
When as I'm working a hidden file was created in the same directory
as the
file working file but with the name: ~$b Was Here.doc

I'm assuming this file contains metadata about all the changes that
were
made during my session and each time I Save or it Auto Saves, more
data get's
written to this file.

Problem is, my machine was restarted without my knowledge when I
opened the
file after the restart none of my changes during my last session
were
present. I still have the ~$ file but I'm assuming that it's not
linked to
my orignal document anymore.

Is there a way to recover these changes?

Thanks,
-brett

Is there a way to link this file.


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