Hi Bill,

Your attitude to Word, calling it "M$ crap" depicts someone who's opinions are informed by prejudice rather than rationality. Office is not in the habit of creating corrupt files; what you're seeing is more likely a result of working with files on USB sticks and not removing them safely. Or perhaps its your 'Open Office' software that corrupted them ... (Converting files between Open Office and MS Office is known to have problems and many Linux users would like to see MS Office for Linux to avoid such issues and to improve their productivity). Furthermore, since these are work files, I would expect there to be an in-house backup system to protect against data loss.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]