Word should have a temp file like cookies for unsaved documents.

A

adrian93x

I do IT support for NDSU. One of the people I was helping yesterday had her
laptop loose power. She didn't save her document and lost 15 pages she had
typed. If there was a stored temp file for each document typed something
like this could be retreved. It could save itself in a directory called temp
and label as doc0001, and the next doc0002. It could save over itself say
every 10 seconds.

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J

Jezebel

That's exactly what Word DOES do. If you're working on an existing document,
the temp file is in the same folder as the original. Word finds the temp
file when it restarts, and offers it to you as the 'recovered file'.

A competent IT support person would surely know to check the documentation
before posting superfluous suggestions?
 

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