Hi,

I was working on a complex 60 page Word 97 document containing many tables
and some graphics divided into sever sections, when I decided to change the
orientation of one of those sections to Landscape. All of a sudden all the
documents contents disappeared. I immediately decided to close the document
without saving and opened it again. Unfortunately it appears to have
autosaved and the opened file was the same all but 5 pages remained. I
checked in Explorer and the doc filesize had reduced from over 4.5Mgs to
about 8kb! The dumped .tmp file on the otherhand is still about 4.5 <Mgs.

So can anyone tell me if and how to open such a file in a usable form I
would be most grateful.

Thanks,

Dear Jay,

First of all copy the *.tmp file and store in safe place and keep one as the
working copy.

After that:

1. Click Start
2. Type Explorer (Windows Explorer will open)
3. Click Tools
4. Click Folder Options
5. Click View Tab
6. Uncheck the option "Hide file extensions for known file types"
7. Click OK

Proceed to rename the *tmp file
1. Go to your working copy
2. Right Click and give a filename and add .doc
ie filename.doc
3. Invoke Winword and then use open file option to open your required file

Check if it helps.

Regards,

Jitesh Biswas
http://jiteshbiswas.tripod.com


"JAY" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was working on a complex 60 page Word 97 document containing many tables
> and some graphics divided into sever sections, when I decided to change the
> orientation of one of those sections to Landscape. All of a sudden all the
> documents contents disappeared. I immediately decided to close the document
> without saving and opened it again. Unfortunately it appears to have
> autosaved and the opened file was the same all but 5 pages remained. I
> checked in Explorer and the doc filesize had reduced from over 4.5Mgs to
> about 8kb! The dumped .tmp file on the otherhand is still about 4.5 <Mgs.
>
> So can anyone tell me if and how to open such a file in a usable form I
> would be most grateful.
>
> Thanks,
>
>

"JAY" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:F63BC415-C9FF-4E87-BFB2-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> I was working on a complex 60 page Word 97 document containing many tables
> and some graphics divided into sever sections, when I decided to change
> the
> orientation of one of those sections to Landscape. All of a sudden all the
> documents contents disappeared. I immediately decided to close the
> document
> without saving and opened it again. Unfortunately it appears to have
> autosaved and the opened file was the same all but 5 pages remained. I
> checked in Explorer and the doc filesize had reduced from over 4.5Mgs to
> about 8kb! The dumped .tmp file on the otherhand is still about 4.5 <Mgs.
>
> So can anyone tell me if and how to open such a file in a usable form I
> would be most grateful.
>
> Thanks,

I would ask the experts in a Word newsgroup. From an operating system point
of view, the answer is: Restore the file from your most recent backup. If
you don't back up your important files then this is the time to review your
backup policy.