Article: ASK JIM: Hungry WordPerfect eats address book again

Q. I have posed this question to you before - without a response. I am trying again after another incident: My WordPerfect program (version 8.0) has, four or five times, eaten the address book.

This has happened on the Dell desktop and laptop that I own. The first incident - a couple of years ago - wiped out dozens of addresses. When I clicked to open the address book, nothing was in it. It has happened, as I said, several times since.

Have you ever heard of such a thing? Also, I prefer WordPerfect over Word, and I would like to do a floppy backup of the address book, something that seems like a good idea. Have you any idea where the address book is hidden and what it's called? - Jack ...

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