When you open the file (think of this as before you open the file) change
the "Files of type" field on the Open screen to "Recover Text from Any
File (*.*)".

This may give you a very large file when you view it in Word. It will
include the template information as well as any and all editing changes
that may have been made on the document.

It may take some grunt work to get your document back in good form, but
this recovery usually works.

Good Luck,

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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Ashok Bhiman wrote:

> PCSOFT Digest - 9 Jan 2001 to 10 Jan 2001 (#2001-11)Hello,
> I have a file in MS Word 97 which seems to be corrupt. When I open the file, it loads and then the program hangs and stops responding. I have to "Close Down" MS Word. The file contains 52 pages which is correctly shown at the bottom. All the while the HDD activity continues as if the program is trying to load the file. I get the impression that ther is no EOF character and the MS Word program is unable to tell when the file has been loaded. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Ashok Bhiman
>
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