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Word cannot find files!
My wife has encountered a weird problem using Word. She still uses Word 97
on a Windows 98 SE PC and does not want to change because she is busy with a teaching project at a university. She has all her Word data files in a single folder (separate partition from Word's) which contains several subfolders for the various courses she is involved in. Everything worked fine till yesterday. Yesterday, within Word she clicked on File/Open and the subfolder she was working in and found that though most of her files were there, a few (3-4) she was looking for were missing. In panic, she called for my help (I am the home PC "guru"). She was right. Most of the files showed up on Word's File/Open screen but the 3 she wanted did not show there. Using Windows "find" utility, I found the files were where they were supposed to be - in that Word data folder, but they still did not appear in Word's "File/Open" screen. They opened just fine in Word when I clicked on them in the Windows "find files" screen, so they were intact on the HD where they were supposed to be. It's just Word that could not find them. Anything I can do to solve this annoying problem? I recently defragmented her HD if that helps explain things. (Yes, she has backups). Jeff |
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Word cannot find files!
If she has file extensions displayed and is not used to this, she may have
inadvertently removed the file extension when renaming a document (though when you do this, you do usually get a warning that the file many become "unusable"). When you display Word Documents or All Word Documents in File Open, you see only files that have a .doc or .doc, .dot, .htm, .rtf, etc., extension. If your wife changes the setting to All Files, very likely she will see her "missing" documents. If she renames them again to add the .doc extension, all should be back to normal. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jeff" wrote in message ... My wife has encountered a weird problem using Word. She still uses Word 97 on a Windows 98 SE PC and does not want to change because she is busy with a teaching project at a university. She has all her Word data files in a single folder (separate partition from Word's) which contains several subfolders for the various courses she is involved in. Everything worked fine till yesterday. Yesterday, within Word she clicked on File/Open and the subfolder she was working in and found that though most of her files were there, a few (3-4) she was looking for were missing. In panic, she called for my help (I am the home PC "guru"). She was right. Most of the files showed up on Word's File/Open screen but the 3 she wanted did not show there. Using Windows "find" utility, I found the files were where they were supposed to be - in that Word data folder, but they still did not appear in Word's "File/Open" screen. They opened just fine in Word when I clicked on them in the Windows "find files" screen, so they were intact on the HD where they were supposed to be. It's just Word that could not find them. Anything I can do to solve this annoying problem? I recently defragmented her HD if that helps explain things. (Yes, she has backups). Jeff |
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