Help!!!!

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I have just spent the last 6.5 hours writing a very
important paper using MSword 03' in WINxp Home. I got up
to go get a sandwich and my wise ass college room mate
somehow managed to close the word document without my
saving. I know it was rather stupid of me to leave a pig
with pearls but what could i possibly do to retrieve the
document?
 
Unfortunately, there is nothing that you can do to retrieve the document.
As for your wise ass college room mate, that's another story all together.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
As Doug mentioned, you are out of luck, but let this be a very important
lesson to you. If you worked for 6.5 hours and never took the couple of
seconds to save your document, well...! At least you learned your lesson in
college and not on a very important job where your career could have hung in
the balance.

SAVE EARLY, SAVE OFTEN!
 
Train yourself to hit cntl-S every time you pause to think, get up, etc. It
will be one of the best habits you pick up in college.

DM
 
It is inconceivable to me how anyone could work even half an hour on a
document (much less six and a half) without saving even once. <shudder>
Actually, it's inconceivable to me how anyone could work six and a half
hours on a document at one sitting.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Help!!!!

It is inconceivable to me how anyone could work even half an hour on a
document (much less six and a half) without saving even once. <shudder>
Actually, it's inconceivable to me how anyone could work six and a half
hours on a document at one sitting.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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couple
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Suzanne,
Many people never learn in life to draw back and take a
breath to retain freshness among other things.
In computing it is even more important else, the end result—besides
tunnel-vision—is something I refer to as "brain mush" were your just a
babbling idiot and really unable to recall where you are or what your next
action is :-))
 
Well, what I do not understand is why MS creates an expensive products that
does not allow for automatic saves. This problem is sheer negligence on the
part of MS. It would be so simple.
 
Thanks, Graham. I will try the Macro. The "Automatic Save" is better than
nothing and it has saved my skin a few times.

I believe that half of the complaints about Word involve the loss of
documents due to failure to automatically and actually "Save".

IMHO, rather than make picayune changes to new editions of Word, MS should
address this problem more thoroughly. Maybe the MVPs can prod MS?
 
The last thing I would want would be Word saving behind my back--any more
than I want it changing my styles or applying numbers for its own reasons or
any of the other "auto" conveniences that seem to be the vogue.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I think I've seen more complaints from people who saved the wrong thing over
the top of their previous version than I've seen complaints from people who
lost data. Combined these complaints might account for 1% of the help
requests posted here, if that. Even though I am careful to not use existing
documents as starters for new projects, I would be very leery of having Word
save things for me without asking.

I've found the crash backups useful and do appreciate the questioning when I
close a changed document.
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Charles Kenyon

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Charles said:
I think I've seen more complaints from people who saved the wrong
thing over the top of their previous version than I've seen
complaints from people who lost data. Combined these complaints might
account for 1% of the help requests posted here, if that. Even though
I am careful to not use existing documents as starters for new
projects, I would be very leery of having Word save things for me
without asking.

I've found the crash backups useful and do appreciate the questioning
when I close a changed document.
Click to expand...

This is probably why Microsoft didn't put this function in the core product,
but the function can be provided if required. Like Suzanne and yourself, *I*
wouldn't want Word taking control of the decision to save a document.

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The last thing I would want would be Word saving behind my back--any more
than I want it changing my styles or applying numbers for its own reasons or
any of the other "auto" conveniences that seem to be the vogue.
Click to expand...

I certainly wouldn't want Word automatically saving over my existing
file.

On the other hand, if Word kept one extra temporary file, and saved
the document content to it every ten minutes (or even just at document
close time), and placed that temporary file in the Recycle Bin when
the document was closed without saving changes, it would save a lot of
users who forget to Save, or who say "don't save changes" by mistake.
It would cost almost nothing.

Bob S
 
I agree that this would be useful as an option (in my case, I'd want to be
able to disable the option. Otherwise I'd accumulate a lot of junk in the
Recycle Bin because I create a lot of files for testing and discard them
without saving). Have you sent this suggestion to (e-mail address removed)?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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