>> Did you try using "Open and Repair" from the open dialog box of Word?
>
> And how do you do that?

In the open file dialog, there's a little arrow right next to the "Open" 
icon - click that and you get some further options, one of which is "Open 
and Repair".

> [FWIW, I did spend quite a lot of time researching the options. There's a 
> Word experts website that tells you all the little tricks for fixing 
> corrupted documents. Sadly, none of them work for a document so broken it 
> won't even open at all...]

IME "Open and Repair" opens documents that would normally be unopenable.  It 
then gives you a list of document sections that are corrupt, and makes the 
rest back into a working file.

> Yes. Because the only difference between IE and FF is tabbed browsing. 
> It's not like FF is 98% more efficient or secure or standards-compliant or 
> anything like that...

Most people don't care about that though, the only difference they see (IME) 
is tabbed browsing, and of course the fact that some websites don't work 
with FF.

>> Get a life away from computers :-)
>
> And that is an entire *other* story...

Hehe, seriously, did you ever wonder what it would be like to have a job 
that didn't involve computers?  I wonder sometimes ...

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