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MS Word 2010
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:50:52 -0500, silverslimer
wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:19:58 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:52:55 -0500, silverslimer wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:30:27 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:36:34 -0800, croy wrote: I'm using Word 2000, so this may not apply, but I started with Word for DOS. But with Word for Windows, it's always been the case that when working on a long, complex document, frequent saves are a must to prevent Word crashes. If I'm doing something truly esoteric, I save after each successful step! alt f s is your friend! Word 2000, Word for DOS, or any other version of Word, you should always do frequent saves. And that's true whether it's a long complex document or not. Saves do not prevent Word crashes. What they prevent is your being hurt by a problem of almost any type: Word crashes, Windows crashes, hardware failures, power failures, user errors, malware attacks, etc. And the same is true for any other word processor, not just Word. Even if it's not a word processor, but some other type of program, if you put work into a file, you should frequently save what you've done. To be fair, Word saves automatically by default every five minutes. That may depend on what version you use; I'm not sure. But yes, other word processors do too, such as WordPerfect, the word processor I use and greatly prefer to Word. And the length of time between saving may be adjustable. But my point remains, regardless of what program you use, even it's not a word processor you should be sure you get frequent saves, whether they are automatic or you have to do them manually. I have to admit that I'm a fan of WordPerfect as well. I got the X6 version from some OEM CD on eBay a few years back and found the word processor's interface to be ugly as sin but the actual software to be a lot more complete than Word. The only issue I had was the fact that it took ages to load. We're very different. I like WordPerfect's interface much better than Word's. I run X7, not X6, but there's hardly any difference between them. Out of curiosity, I just timed how long it took to load; it was 3.5 seconds, and that 's fine as far as I'm concerned. My wife runs X6, and I just timed loading on her machine. It was 6.5 seconds, a little slower (probably because mine loads from an SSD and hers from a HD), but still fine. I also started Word 2016 on my machine to compare its startup time with WordPerfect's; it was 5 seconds, a little slower than WordPerfect. |
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