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This problem has caused me countless extra hours of work.

I open a blank document, create text content, and Save the file as .docx. I close the document. Upon reopening the document it is completely blank and the file size is 0kb. Unfortunately I saved about five files before I realized what was happening. They are all completely gone as far as I can tell and not saved as backups anywhere.

Does anyone have any solutions to this problem? If not: Is Word corrupt? Do I need to install a new copy to avoid this problem in the future? It is obviously unusable when it works like this.

Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:50 AM

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Hi,

Where do you save your documents?

If it's a network place, please save the files to local drive or desktop instead.

Best regards,
Rex Zhang
TechNet Community Support
- Marked as answer by Rex Zhang Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:48 AM
Sunday, July 14, 2013 6:48 AM
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This behavior sounds like you might be working from a Flash drive? If you don't eject flash drives properly, files don't get written.
Kind Regards, Rich ... http://greatcirclelearning.com
- Marked as answer by Rex Zhang Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:48 AM
Sunday, July 14, 2013 2:25 PM

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Hi,

Where do you save your documents?

If it's a network place, please save the files to local drive or desktop instead.

Best regards,
Rex Zhang
TechNet Community Support
- Marked as answer by Rex Zhang Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:48 AM
Sunday, July 14, 2013 6:48 AM
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This behavior sounds like you might be working from a Flash drive? If you don't eject flash drives properly, files don't get written.
Kind Regards, Rich ... http://greatcirclelearning.com
- Marked as answer by Rex Zhang Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:48 AM
Sunday, July 14, 2013 2:25 PM