There was no suggestion of lying - and I don't know where you'd get that idea. The simple fact is the option is displayed even when there are no files for it recover.



As for reinstalling Office, that rarely achieves anything a repair won't.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I'm sorry, I took that completely the wrong way. I have been putting in a lot of late nights trying to finish up my dissertation, and I've been enduring a fairly frequent amount of crashes in several Office programs (due to large file sizes). I came in this morning after 4 hours of sleep and read your response, and I don't know why I interpreted it that way. That's entirely my bad.

Anyways, for some reason, the "Recover Documents" button is in fact not always showing up at the bottom of my screen, and I haven't really been able to find anyone else having this problem. Despite the potential futility, I am going to try reinstalling Office over the weekend and see if that fixes it.