[mso] Re: Down side to having Word "Automatically Create Backup Copy" ?
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:55:33 -0500
<<I'm not sure I fully understand the good and bad
points of the automatic backup feature or the auto save feature, but am
thinking that if I save manually and often and use the automatic backup
I should be safe. >>
First of all, there is no "autosave", there is only autoRecover, which does
not automatically save your document...it just creates a temp copy of the
doc so if Word crashes, this can be retrieved....it does not really save the
document...if Word doesn't crash and you close the document without saving
changes, it will revert back to the way it was when you opened it.
The automatic backup simply makes a second copy of the file when you save
it.
So, I do it all manually. I do have AutoRecover turned on, cuz it's saved
my butt a couple times when Word crashed on me and I hadn't saved
recently.....but, the best thing to do is to save your document manually
EVERY time you do something that you worked hard on and don't want to have
to do again...and save multiple copies, so if one gets corrupt or something,
you have another
Linda F. Johnson, M.A., MOS
Linda's Computer Stop
http://personal-computer-tutor.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Diane Rainaud
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:23 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Down side to having Word "Automatically Create Backup Copy" ?
I just had a problem with a Word doc (using Word 2000) and I'm trying to
find the best way to prevent this headache in the future. On a 60 page
document created from a special template, I was doing my final read
through and cleaning up a few awkward page breaks when I noticed some
text in a table was not formatted properly. Assuming (I should know
better than to do that!) that the problem was just with that table, I
began fixing it and then saved the document only to discover the
formatting changes had taken place across the entire document. I have
no idea what I did to cause the changes, but all bullets had new
indents, and there was an indent on the 2nd and subsequent lines in all
paragraphs. I had to go through all 60 pages manually and fix things
paragraph by paragraph. At least that's what I DID do because I didn't
know what else I could do.
Anyway, my thought for preventing this in the future is to turn back on
the "Automatically create backup copy" which I turned off a while back
(don't remember why now). I don't like using AutoSave because I've been
known to have it decide to save just when I messed up something I'd
rather not have saved. I'm not sure I fully understand the good and bad
points of the automatic backup feature or the auto save feature, but am
thinking that if I save manually and often and use the automatic backup
I should be safe. If anyone has thoughts on why I should or should not
do this, I love to hear them.
Thanks.
Diane
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