Word doesn't ask to save when closing documents

[Gemma]

Hello All,

After working on a document for many hours I try to minimize the
document and mistakenly clicked the X instead. Word did not ask me to
Save my Document (and I had not saved my document while working on
it). This may only happen 1% of the time when mistakenly closing the
document but can be extremely frustrating when losing hours worth of
work.

When I go to my recent documents to open it the only informaiton there
is what was there when I originally opened it before making all my
changes.

I had this problem in Office 2000 and just upgraded to Office 2003 a
couple of months ago and it is still occurring.

Has anyone ever heard of this or any idea why this is going on? I have
AutoRecover turned on to 10 minutes, I have just turned on the option
to Always create a backup copy in case this will help, and though I
know I should definitely save while working on my documents I would
like to solve the bigger issue of why this is happening in the first
place. It seems to me that Word thinks it has asked me if I want to
save any changes and thinks I clicked 'No'.

Thank you for any suggesstions.

gemma

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Hi, Gemma. It's possible that you are actually clicking on the minimize
button instead of the X. There is a bug in Word's handwriting recognition
feature that can cause Word to close without warning when you minimize Word.
Try removing handwriting recognition in Start | Control Panel | Regional and
Language Settings | Language tab | Details | <select Handwriting Recognition>
| Remove. If this fixes the problem, and if you need to use handwriting
recognition, then you can add it back and it should work okay after you
re-add it.