Hi Sue, Try doing a control s before closing it. It really should be saving it because of what you're already doing and I wouldn't know why it isn't. But try the control s first, and as an added safeguard, you could do a control A and then control c to select it all and copy it to the clipboard. Then if you find that the original didn't save, you could create a new file and paste the copied text from the clipboard into it with a control v. Hope this helps. Pam