[proud American in Canada]

Forget about it. It's been sent to Mars. Microsoft does it on purpose.

Now that's a cheery thought. ;)

Thanks again, all. I am printing out this thread and am now about to try some of these things, though I suppose at some point it's more efficient to just re-do the work I did in the original document.

Thanks again. :)

[PastorBooks]

If you do find the file but Word says it's corrupted, there is a possible solution. OpenOffice does a great job of opening corrupted Word files. Within the past year a Microsoft exec was giving a speech and his file locked up and couldn't open. As he went on talking an MS guy in the back was able to load up the file using OpenOffice and re-saved it as a .doc -- that often does the trick.

OpenOffice both saves and loads Word .doc, and is free and open-source:
www.openoffice.org