Any MS Word experts out there?

[cee-dee]

Looking at my list of documents yesterday, I noticed that I'd got two with the same file name. I'll call them "original" and "ghost"?

Now I made some changes to original yesterday but when I looked at ghost, the changes were also in that one. It seems to me that if I deleted ghost, I'd also delete original? Also, if I "Remove from list" I'd also be removing original too?

Am I now stuck with the two or is there some way of removing ghost? I don't know how I ended up with two.

[thesmi42]

Spooky!

Glad it's sorted itself out anyway.

[cee-dee]

What's your take on what happened?

Oh yes, I've noticed that you were quite right about small files when saving, it's so quick the Black line doesn't appear. The doc that I was working on was 1148kb but the one I've just started is only 19kb. I noticed that it was so quick I only just spotted the Word is saving ******* box before it was done and gone.

[thesmi42]

Difficult to establish what actually happened without seeing it 'live', so it will probably remain one of life's little mysteries.

[cee-dee]

The "little mysteries" are a (expletive deleted) nuisance. Far too much of it where computers are concerned?

[cee-dee]

Over time, I've used three word processing programs. Initially I used Lotus 1-2-3, then went on to MSWorks, then MSWord.

I think a straightforward word processor doesn't need constant meddling and things "they" do to an established program are more of a nuisance than useful?