HELP!!!!

[Martin]

I have a major paper I needed to save and I was going to
save it and my computer Word screen froze and I cant
access it and I am screwed. Can someone help?

[Gord Dibben]

Martin

From Word 2002 Help on Autorecovery and Backup................

Microsoft Word includes a number of ways to back up and recover your
documents.

Document recovery and AutoRecover

If a Microsoft Office program encounters a problem and stops responding, you
can close the program in a controlled manner. The files you were working on
are analyzed for errors, and information in them is recovered if possible. In
some cases, however, no information can be recovered.

The Document Recovery task pane lists all the files that were recovered when
the program stopped responding.

End Help******************

I believe Word 97 and 2000 have the same features.

You may have a backup you don't know about. Hope so.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP - XL97 SR2 & XL2002

On Sat, 10 May 2003 15:28:13 -0700, "Martin" > wrote:

>I have a major paper I needed to save and I was going to
>save it and my computer Word screen froze and I cant
>access it and I am screwed. Can someone help?

[Amethyst]

Martin wrote:
> I have a major paper I needed to save and I was going to
> save it and my computer Word screen froze and I cant
> access it and I am screwed. Can someone help?

I cannot believe there are still people who've not learnt to CTRL+S as they
go along. You're typing, it's the easiest thing in the world just to hit
CTRL+S occasionally, then you wouldn't find yourself in this mess. I also
have autosave set for every couple of minutes - that way, should anything
happen, the worst thing that could happen is I've lost the last couple of
sentences.

Adopt a strategy of saving at least once a paragraph and you'll never have
this problem again. You may be lucky that autosave was set and you're able
to recover some of your paper. If not, let this be a lesson to adopt a good
save routine.


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[Fred]

On Sat, 10 May 2003 23:58:21 +0100, "Amethyst" >
wrote:

>Martin wrote:
>> I have a major paper I needed to save and I was going to
>> save it and my computer Word screen froze and I cant
>> access it and I am screwed. Can someone help?
>
>I cannot believe there are still people who've not learnt to CTRL+S as they
>go along. You're typing, it's the easiest thing in the world just to hit
>CTRL+S occasionally, then you wouldn't find yourself in this mess. I also
>have autosave set for every couple of minutes - that way, should anything
>happen, the worst thing that could happen is I've lost the last couple of
>sentences.
>
>Adopt a strategy of saving at least once a paragraph and you'll never have
>this problem again. You may be lucky that autosave was set and you're able
>to recover some of your paper. If not, let this be a lesson to adopt a good
>save routine.
And yet you criticize me...

[Amethyst]

Fred wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 2003 23:58:21 +0100, "Amethyst" >
> wrote:
>
>> Martin wrote:
>>> I have a major paper I needed to save and I was going to
>>> save it and my computer Word screen froze and I cant
>>> access it and I am screwed. Can someone help?
>>
>> I cannot believe there are still people who've not learnt to CTRL+S as
>> they go along. You're typing, it's the easiest thing in the world just
>> to hit CTRL+S occasionally, then you wouldn't find yourself in this
>> mess. I also have autosave set for every couple of minutes - that way,
>> should anything happen, the worst thing that could happen is I've lost
>> the last couple of sentences.
>>
>> Adopt a strategy of saving at least once a paragraph and you'll never
>> have this problem again. You may be lucky that autosave was set and
>> you're able to recover some of your paper. If not, let this be a lesson
>> to adopt a good save routine.
> And yet you criticize me...

You told Bruce Chambers he was wrong...of course I criticised you! Bruce is
a burgeoning MVP - you're not and with remarks like those you made, it isn't
very difficult to see why!

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[Fred]

On Sun, 11 May 2003 23:33:00 +0100, "Amethyst" >
wrote:

>>>
>>> I cannot believe there are still people who've not learnt to CTRL+S as
>>> they go along. You're typing, it's the easiest thing in the world just
>>> to hit CTRL+S occasionally, then you wouldn't find yourself in this
>>> mess. I also have autosave set for every couple of minutes - that way,
>>> should anything happen, the worst thing that could happen is I've lost
>>> the last couple of sentences.
>>>
>>> Adopt a strategy of saving at least once a paragraph and you'll never
>>> have this problem again. You may be lucky that autosave was set and
>>> you're able to recover some of your paper. If not, let this be a lesson
>>> to adopt a good save routine.
>> And yet you criticize me...
>
>You told Bruce Chambers he was wrong...of course I criticised you!

No, you criticized me because I commented on someone else - not Bruce.
Nice try.

>Cassandra
>Card carrying member of the Fresh Start Club 'The Undead Are People Too!'

Maybe, but bitches are dogs.