How specify location for automatically recovered documents inWord 2004?

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

A June 3 or June 4 response to a posting on another topic (which I can no
longer find in scrolling and searching subject lines in this newsgroup)
ended with this line:

"See also Specify a location for automatically recovered documents"

I could not find a way to do that in the Word 2004 preferences and I came up
dry when I visited the MVPs FAQs for Word website and looked under a number
of search terms for auto save and auto recover.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Norman,

I just searched the Word 2001 Help under "autorecover documents" and that
was the first result that came up. I've reproduced what it says below but
I'd appreciate it if you'd check the Word 2004 Help to be sure the info is
still there. Some topics were dropped from Help (for some inexplicable
reason) and we're lobbying to get them put back. Here it is:


Specify a location for automatically recovered documents
1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences, and then click the File Locations
tab.
2. In the File types box, click AutoRecover files.
3. Click Modify.
4. To specify a location for automatically recovered documents, click a
different folder or shared disk in the box at the top of the dialog box, or
double-click a different folder in the folder list.
To specify a new folder, click New, type a name in the Name of new folder
box, and click Create.
5. Click Choose.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org>

 

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

Thanks, Beth,

It's different. I couldn't find an autorecover documents specify-locations
link as you did in Word 2001. Here's the closest I got in Word 2004 Help
(which, unfortunately, doesn't allow copy and paste to another document),
so, from my notes:

1. On the Word [not the Edit] menu, click Preferences and then click File
Location.
2. In the File Types box, click Documents and then click Modify.
3. Locate and click the folder you want to choose as the default.

I modified that somewhat for my purposes and in #2's File Types box, clicked
on Auto Recover Files, instead of Documents. The rest worked fine.

Now, if Office 2006 would allow one to command-c copy from Word, Entourage
or Excel Help and paste into other documents, such as messages posted in
these newsgroups or into customers' Entourage Notes, that would be cool.

Respectfully, Norm

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Norman,

It's different. I couldn't find an autorecover documents specify-locations
link as you did in Word 2001.

Thanks for checking this out. I'll definitely report it.

Here's the closest I got in Word 2004 Help
(which, unfortunately, doesn't allow copy and paste to another document),
so, from my notes:

1. On the Word [not the Edit] menu, click Preferences and then click File
Location.
2. In the File Types box, click Documents and then click Modify.
3. Locate and click the folder you want to choose as the default.

I modified that somewhat for my purposes and in #2's File Types box, clicked
on Auto Recover Files, instead of Documents. The rest worked fine.

Good. I'm glad you were able to figure it out.

Now, if Office 2006 would allow one to command-c copy from Word, Entourage
or Excel Help and paste into other documents, such as messages posted in
these newsgroups or into customers' Entourage Notes, that would be cool.

Now *that* you should definitely communicate directly to MS using the
Feedback feature of Help!

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org>

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Norman -

Not sure why you're having a problem. This topic comes up in the topic
list in Word2004 Help when I search on "autorecover" (item 8 out of 11):

Specify a location for automatically recovered documents
1. On the Word menu, click Preferences, and then click File Locations.
2. In the File types box, click AutoRecover files.
3. Click Modify.
4. To specify a location for automatically recovered documents, use the
column browser to locate a different folder in the folder list.
To specify a new folder, click New Folder, type a name in the Name of new
folder box, and click Create
5. Click Choose.

and I used CMD-c to copy it from Word Help and CMD-v to paste it into
this message, which I'm composing on MT-NewsWatcher.

Thanks, Beth,

It's different. I couldn't find an autorecover documents specify-locations
link as you did in Word 2001. Here's the closest I got in Word 2004 Help
(which, unfortunately, doesn't allow copy and paste to another document),
so, from my notes:

1. On the Word [not the Edit] menu, click Preferences and then click File
Location.
2. In the File Types box, click Documents and then click Modify.
3. Locate and click the folder you want to choose as the default.

I modified that somewhat for my purposes and in #2's File Types box, clicked
on Auto Recover Files, instead of Documents. The rest worked fine.

Now, if Office 2006 would allow one to command-c copy from Word, Entourage
or Excel Help and paste into other documents, such as messages posted in
these newsgroups or into customers' Entourage Notes, that would be cool.

Respectfully, Norm

Hi Norman,

I just searched the Word 2001 Help under "autorecover documents" and that
was the first result that came up. I've reproduced what it says below but
I'd appreciate it if you'd check the Word 2004 Help to be sure the info is
still there. Some topics were dropped from Help (for some inexplicable
reason) and we're lobbying to get them put back. Here it is:


Specify a location for automatically recovered documents
1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences, and then click the File Locations
tab.
2. In the File types box, click AutoRecover files.
3. Click Modify.
4. To specify a location for automatically recovered documents, click a
different folder or shared disk in the box at the top of the dialog box, or
double-click a different folder in the folder list.
To specify a new folder, click New, type a name in the Name of new folder
box, and click Create.
5. Click Choose.

 

[John McGhie]

In Word 2004, there are two help topics. One is named " I used the
AutoRecover feature. Now where did my recovery file go?" and the other is "
I turned on the AutoRecover feature before I lost my document, but the
recovery file didn't open automatically."

Generally, I do not recommend changing the location for AutoRecover files.
You can get problems if you do.

If you absolutely must change the location, remember:

1) The AutoRecover location should be a local drive.

2) It is preferable that the location is on the same partition as the Word
executable.

3) The location should be one to which all your user IDs have full access.

Unless all three of those are true, expect problems. The most usual problem
is that after a crash, the AutoRecover file will not open because Word can't
find it.

Hope this helps

Hi Norman,

I just searched the Word 2001 Help under "autorecover documents" and that
was the first result that came up. I've reproduced what it says below but
I'd appreciate it if you'd check the Word 2004 Help to be sure the info is
still there. Some topics were dropped from Help (for some inexplicable
reason) and we're lobbying to get them put back. Here it is:


Specify a location for automatically recovered documents
1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences, and then click the File Locations
tab.
2. In the File types box, click AutoRecover files.
3. Click Modify.
4. To specify a location for automatically recovered documents, click a
different folder or shared disk in the box at the top of the dialog box, or
double-click a different folder in the folder list.
To specify a new folder, click New, type a name in the Name of new folder
box, and click Create.
5. Click Choose.

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