autosaving

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Someone

Please help.
My computer forced me to reset it while I had an open word document.
After doing so I reopened Microsoft Word expecting to find the information
in the document there, but it wasn't. Why wasn't the word document
autosaved?

Thankyou, if you can help,
Someone.
 
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Anand.V.V.N

By the way which version of word are you using?
Probably its got to do with some settings of auto save, must be its 10
minutes. Check that set it to 5 minutes. I am not so sure on which tab it is.
It might solve your problem.

Hope you found this helpful.

Anand
 
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Anand.V.V.N

Hi garfield-n-odie,

Nice link got to know a few things, and also got to understand the
mis-understood.
Anand
 
T

TF

Yes. It is easy to misunderstand because AutoSave really doesn't do what you
think the label says!



: Hi garfield-n-odie,
:
: Nice link got to know a few things, and also got to understand the
: mis-understood.
: Anand
: --
: "Who will guard the guards?"
:
:
: "garfield-n-odie" wrote:
:
: > See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/AutomaticSave.htm .
: >
: > Someone wrote:
: >
: > > Please help.
: > > My computer forced me to reset it while I had an open word
document.
: > > After doing so I reopened Microsoft Word expecting to find the
information
: > > in the document there, but it wasn't. Why wasn't the word document
: > > autosaved?
: > >
: > > Thankyou, if you can help,
: > > Someone.
: > >
: > >
: >
: >
 
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Anand.V.V.N

Hi Suzanne,

I think the Autosave thing was there in Wod 97 if I thing I am right.

Anand
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

No, I'm pretty sure it was AutoRecover in Word 97 as well. In much earlier
versions there was a feature called AutoSave; my Word 2.0 manual describes
such a feature, and it really was a save--sort of. The first AutoSave was a
full save, subsequent ones were incremental, just saving changes since the
previous full save (rather like the dreaded Fast Saves), and all the
AutoSave backups were deleted whenever you explicitly saved the document
manually. "Always create backup copy" created a .BAK file on the same terms
that it now creates .wbk files. The "Automatic Save" feature continued in
Word 6.0 (and presumably Word 95 as well). But the manual says, "When you
select the Automatic Save Every check box, Word saves a temporary copy of
the document as often as you specify. But you still must use the Save
command on the File menu to save the document normally when you finish
working on it. An automatically saved copy of the document can be used to
restore your work if a power failure or other problem occurs before you've
saved changes." So it's clear that it was always intended as automatic
recovery.
 
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Beth Melton

I concur. They changed the wording in Word 97 to eliminate the
confusion but it's the same option. It's always been intended to be
used as a "for emergency use only" type of save. <g>

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Microsoft Office MVP

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