recover in word 2000

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From: Larry Randall (l-randall_at_ti.com)
Date: 04/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 06:14:02 -0700

I agree that Word *should* not crash, but it does -- and
often -- whether or not you have any add-ins! It is
simply "buggy" software. The causes of most Word crashes
relates to "memory leaks", mis-directed pointers, and the
temporary files that it creates - and often fails to
remove.

If you run Word, you *must* do a disk cleanup at least
once each week. You *must* also Defragment at least once
each week - once per day if you are a heavy user. These
steps will *minimize* the crashes. Also, if you have less
than 512 MB of RAM, upgrade to at least 512 MB.

Larry Randall
Certified Word Expert

>-----Original Message-----
>hi
>
>how do you recover files when word has crashed. It
creates the file $whatever and is greyed out but when you
open this file it just comes up with a load of random
characters.
>
>Is there a way of recovering it fully??
>
>thanks
>.
>

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