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| Thread ID: 58126 | 2005-05-22 09:58:00 | Lost : Word.....assignment. | beetle (243) | Press F1 |
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| 357481 | 2005-05-22 11:46:00 | Personally I turn off the "fast saves" feature of Word and save important documents with a different name each time e.g. Project Important A.doc then Project Important B.doc Save in a couple of different places too. Also make sure you update your version of Office with the latest patches etc. Possibly you have other problems hardware/software wise and the Word problem is just a symptom. You could also just make your drafts in a good old fashioned text editor such as notepad and then copy into word, so at least you don't have to re-type. Then you could just start using Openoffice... I've seen too many disasters with Word .... |
gibler (49) | ||
| 357482 | 2005-05-22 12:06:00 | Hi beetle. Agree with gibler about working on another document to avoid crapping on your journal. Each week you can open a new document in Word and prepare the new installment. When you are happy with it, name it as, say, Sunday22nd, and close it. Open your journal and at the end click on Insert > File and select your new installment. As the journal got bigger, and more valuable, I would open it and then save it as immediately... say I would save beetle.doc as beetle2.doc. This will close the original beetle.doc and leave you playing with the new copy. Add the new segment to beetle2.doc and print from that. Only when you are happy with all, save the new document, using save as, as beetle.doc and it will overwrite the original, bringing it up to date. Simple process once you have run through it a few times. :rolleyes: |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 357483 | 2005-05-22 12:19:00 | beetle. Word's Autosave does not work like that. It is NOT really an Autosave at all, in that respect. Please do not rely on it. Use a USB flash drive in preference to a floppy disk for daily backups. MS say: When you have AutoRecovery enabled, Word saves an “AutoRecovery save of <Filename>.asd” file at the interval you specify. These files are saved in the folder specified for AutoRecover files on the File Locations tab of Tools | Options. If something untoward happens while you are working in Word—Word “has encountered a problem and needs to close” (hangs), the system crashes, or the power blinks—the next time you start Word you will be presented with the AutoRecovery files (if any) that had been saved at the time of the event. If the timestamp on one of these is later than your last manual save, you have the option of saving it as your document. There is no substitute for manually saving the document. It may be available, under an 'asd' extention, see above as to where (as specified under Tools-Options - File location). Or not. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 357484 | 2005-05-22 12:27:00 | Um i have said i dont rely on it totally.. i always use, manual save as well.... hitting save often as well..... ok its done, i lost it.... its trashed and its not coming back i get the picture and we say the same things every time, and i say i dont rely on it i just set it at save 1min... can we leave it now..... i feel bad enough as it is ok..... :( |
beetle (243) | ||
| 357485 | 2005-05-22 12:38:00 | The Word auto save only saves to a temporary file. This is for emergency recovery in case the computer crashes or the power goes off. When you restart the computer you open Word it should say "Do you want to recover the document that was open when I crashed" (or something similar). If you say "Yes please" it will open the temporary file and display work to the last save before the crash. If you say "No thank you very much" it will do what it normally does - delete the temporary file. If you then open the doc file on disk it will be to the last point at which you physically saved it. So... autosave is for emergency recovery only, manual save is for saving your work to disk. |
Mercury (1316) | ||
| 357486 | 2005-05-22 23:28:00 | Um i have said i dont rely on it totally . . i always use, manual save as well . . . . hitting save often as well . . . . . ok its done, i lost it . . . . its trashed and its not coming back i get the picture and we say the same things every time, and i say i dont rely on it i just set it at save 1min . . . can we leave it now . . . . . i feel bad enough as it is ok . . . . . :( Don't give up that easy beetle . You have been though this before if I recollect correctly and the only thing that lies between you and your missing pages is knowing how to search . Using the Windows Search function, enter a word that is reasonably unique to that document and * . * as the document name . Search the whole of your computer and you should locate it, wherever it is saved . There is also the option of finding * . wbk files (Word Backup) and there is a thread on that subject Here ( . pcworld . co . nz/showthread . php?t=38614&highlight=%2A . wbk" target="_blank">pressf1 . pcworld . co . nz) that might help . The links in that thread are now dead (new forum glitch??) but you can find all of them by doing an Advanced Forum Search using just * . wbk as the key word search term, and leaving the user name blank . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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