Daryl, Bill: If not mentioned in this thread before, you should ALWAYS turn off fast save in Word. Then you might have a chance of recovering the contents of a file if it ever becomes corrupted and may even contribute to easier conversion to Frame. Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications/Technical communicator and FrameMaker mentor MYOB Australia <http://www.myob.com.au/> P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia <mailto:hedley_finger@xxxxxxxxxxx> Tel. +61 3 9222 9992 x 7421, Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 (C) MYOB Limited 2002 ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelist.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************