Battybird said:
when I'm typing emails or on a forum I type a really long letter/post
etc and halfway through the computer throws a wobbly and I lose the
whole blasted lot!! I'm hoping theres something in the tools that I
can enable to auto save as I'm typing... or am I expecting too much
from a machine that can do everything except make the tea!!
Hope someone can help please
First, recognize that you're posting in a Word newsgroup, so while we may be
able to help you with Word issues, your problems with email or forums are
pretty much off-topic here.
Dealing with Word first, get comfortable with the Ctrl+S keystroke to save
the current document. Every time you stop to think about what you're typing,
press Ctrl+S. If you've been typing for more than a few minutes, press
Ctrl+S. To have a reminder pop up every so often, go to
http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#SaveReminder.
There is a "recovery" save that you can set in the Options dialog of Word,
but the copy it saves is available only if Word actually crashes. If you
shut down normally, the recovery file is automatically deleted. Don't rely
on it.
The same advice about saving often is good for email. Most email clients
(except for web mail) will let you save a message that you're composing but
haven't sent yet. Read the help for your email program to find out how.
There really isn't much you can do about web forums, other than to compose
your posts in Notepad and then copy/paste into the forum editor.
More important than all these tips, though, is to find out why your computer
repeatedly "throws a wobbly" -- most computers don't, and those that do
usually have something wrong. It might be a bad configuration, a damaged
registry, a virus or adware or some other nasty program, or operator error.
Try to keep track of exactly what you're doing when you lose some work;
maybe there's something in common that will point to the cause.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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