On Sep 30, 1996 Beth Friedman wrote to Lawrence Kellie:
BF> Description of corrupt document behavior:
 LK> 1) Addition of extra section breaks.  These section 
 LK> 2) Addition of extra field codes.  These field codes 
 LK> 3) The final corruption is a keystroke behavior that I 
 LK> have personally experienced.  At certain places in the 
 LK> document, pressing the BACKSPACE key will delete 
 LK> several words up to half a paragraph. 
BF> I've seen 1) and 3), haven't seen 2, but it makes as much sense as
BF> the other two. 
BF>   
BF> Microsoft is remarkably unhelpful with solutions; they recognize the
BF> existence of the problem, but the best they can suggest is save it
BF> as a text file and salvage what you can.  Bleah.
I find saving in RTF format usually works in these cases. This saves most of 
your formatting.
mgm
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