Hi David,
About 1 month ago I installed Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 and everything was working fine. Since yesterday I notice that everytime I open a file (in Word, Excel & Powerpoint) a duplicate file is created with the same file name, except the first two letters in the file name are replaced by "~$". (for example, "Resume" doc is duplicated as "~$sume").
I tried to open the duplicate file, and get a message "The Office Open XML file ~$ume cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents." I click for more details and it says "The file is courrupt and connot be opened".
What is causing this, and how can I fix it?
Thank you for your help.
-Sara
This file should be created when the file you want is open. When you save or close the document it should remove the file.
Does this happen?
thanks
David
Hello David,
The files with ~$ are removed when I close the documents in Word and Excel. However, they still show up with Powerpoint files (at least one powerpoint presentation that I saved onto a flash drive). Maybe this is just a fluke. If it keeps happening, do I have a problem?
I was originally concerned that I might have a virus, but from your reply I'm now assuming it's just a harmless backup file created when I'm working on a file..
Thank you for your help. I find a lot of useful information on this blog!
No worries. the one that got left behind might have been because the USB key got pulled before Powerpoint cleaned up.
Thanks
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