revert to saved: oops!

[mail2mes]

I didn't know that "revert to saved" meant MAC reopened a previously
saved document and dropped all the work I recently did. I think I just
lost a few hours of work.

I run MS Office 2004 for a MAC G4 10.3 OS
Here is what happened.
Saturday I opened WORD Document "FridaySave.doc".
I worked on it. Left my computer on. Had another couple of WORD docs
open.
I left and came back Sunday. Went to my finder and clicked on
FridaySave.doc. It asked me if I want to "revert to saved". I did, not
knowing I had not saved Saturday's work.
It opened and I saw none of my previous work from Saturday. I scrolled
down and then WROD crashed.

Is there a way to get my Saturday work back? Is this a temp file
somewhere?

Mike

 

[JE McGimpsey]

If you had "make backup copies" checked in Preferences, then the backup copy
would have held the previous version, as long as you didn't save again
(which would overwrite the backup with a new previous version). But most
people don't turn that on.

Every template I create has this option set. Unfortunately, it's not set
by default when Normal is recreated (which I do daily).

Which is one reason I use a startup add-in (global template) that sets
every preference that has a VBA hook, including

With Options
.AllowFastSaves = False
.CreateBackup = True
'...
End With

 

[PhilD]

I didn't know that "revert to saved" meant MAC reopened a previously
saved document and dropped all the work I recently did. I think I just
lost a few hours of work.

Too late to help you now in this specific instance, but I find (through
experience of losing work) that it is a good idea to press <apple>-S
every time you pause to think. That way, the worst you'll lose is a
few minutes-worth of work.

Very, very occasionally you might save something you didn't want [1],
but I find that the chances are far outweighed by the reassurance that
you've saved everything. To start with, it may need to be a concious
decision to press <apple>-S, but it soon becomes second nature.

[1] but there's always "undo" in Word [2]
[2] but not in Excel after saving

Hope this helps,

PhilD