You do not say what version of Word you are using.
When you installed Word and/or Office did you get the updates for it.
Open Word>Help>Detect & Repair.
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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia
"writer" wrote:
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> I have had a terrible problem with a new computer with Vista (XPS- M1330)
> that has occurred 3x in the past week. Here is what happened: I am working on
> a Word document that had been saved previously. I am adding to and revising
> it. When I try to save it, it has turned into a temp file (with numbers) that
> cannot be saved. It cannot be read by Word. The name of the original Word
> file is gone and cannot be found. As a result I cannot access work that was
> done over the past days, (except what has been backed up before this work
> session). I see the name of old Word file in a queue of recent documents but
> it no longer exists, cannot be opened, etc. Advice??
>