Go right ahead Bill, I have a beaut cold that kept me up past 03:00 two nights running. No wonder I'm going off half-cocked, as I'm not really in the land of the living today. What I will say is to avoid using the Word "fast save" (saves a difference file) and autosave (crashes itself in mid keystroke) "features and just stick to making full, regular saves when you press Ctrl+S. For stability, Word should be closed and reopened avery few hours as it builds up many maga-dumps of temporary files (~*.tmp) that can bring everything down in a screaming heap when your PC runs out of "resources" (read partitioned or available directory space). I love Word, really I do, now that the part of my brain that used to see all those lovely features as nasty bugs has been turned to mush by years of Word use. Regards, Michael Granat Write Ideas P.S. Any news on how Warren Lewington's op went today? Quoting HALL Bill <bill.hall@xxxxxxxxx>: > To quote Michael, > > It's a feature not a bug! > > (Sorry Michael, I couldn't help myself) > ************************************************** 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 **************************************************