Unsaved documents surviving computer shut down

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Larry

Here's an oddity that happened with my Word 97, on Windows 98.

Last night I turned off my computer in the usual way.

This morning I turned it on, and Word already had four unsaved documents
open. One of them said "Document 1 Recovered." The others just said
Document 2, Document 3, Document 4. Thes were documents with text in
them, but which had not been saved.

Now I suppose if I shut down Word incorrectly (which I don't think I
did), that the one called "Document 1 recovered." was recovered from the
timed backup file. But what about 2, 3, and 4? They didn't say
"recovered." They had simply survived intact a a complete shut down of
the computer and a turning on of the computer eight hours later. Which
seems impossible.

Any explanations?

Larry
 
The article you linked is an entire tutorial on all the things to do
when Word crashes in order to get Word working again. That's not what I
was asking for. In any case, as I mentioned, Word did not crash as far
as I remember. I shut everything down normally.

Larry
 
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