It is not unknown for Word documents to become corrupted by e-mail. Zipping
the documents before transmission both reduces bandwidth and the opportunity
for corruption.

If the machines are networked, why are you transferring files by e-mail?

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Peter Harrington wrote:
Affirmative. The documents are transferred as outlook e-mail
attachments between machines.

They do include figures as enhance metafiles, and we are using
EndNote 8 for managing the bibliographies.

They are not shared across the netowrk.

Pete

"RWN" wrote in message
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Not an expert, but;
They're not sharing Normal.Dot, are they?
i.e. each local machine should have it's own Normal.Dot.

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Regards;
Rob
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"Peter Harrington" wrote in message
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We are using Word 2003 SP1 and Windoze XP Pro SP2. Several members
of my group have had corrupted documents recently on their own
computers and installations of Word, so this could be a bug in Word
although the documents
are often shared among the several computers.

Fortunately, the Word repair document in the open menu seemed to
fix the problem. The interesting symptom is the corrupted
documents increased to approximately 10X the size of the
uncorrupted documents. It is interesting
because this problem seems to be new. We don't use master
documents and we
have fast saves turned off.

Any suggestions on how to report this bug will be appreciated.
There are no
diagnostics when opening the document, just the statement that the
document
'may' be corrupt. I have a copy of the corrupted document if any
would like
to take a look at it.

Best wishes,

Pete