But it was never intended as a substitute for ordinary saving. Here is the
description of the feature from the Word 2.0 manual:
"If you have Automatic Save selected, Word saves your document for you at
specific intervals. If there's a power outage or system failure, you can
retrieve your work from the autosave backup files.
"The first time Word performs an autosave backup, it saves the entire
document. For subsequent backups, Word saves only those parts of the
document that have changed since the last save. The first autosave may take
a moment, but later backups are fast and hardly noticeable as you work.
Automatic Save dot not take the place of the Save or Save All commands.
These commands completely save and update the versions of a document on disk
each time you choose them.
"Word creates autosave backup files as necessary. Any time you choose the
Save command, Word deletes the autosave backup file for the document you're
saving. Word creates the files again at the next autosave interval for
documents active at that time. If you choose Save All *or quit Word*, Word
deletes all of the autosave backup files." [Emphasis added.]
This is no different from AutoRecover. If you intentionally closed a
document or quit Word without saving, the autosave backup was deleted. The
manual goes on to indicate that Word also saves you from losing your work by
your computer's running out of memory and specifies that "in case of a power
failure or other trouble with your computer, you can open an autosave backup
file the next time you start Word." There is no indication that this was
meant to be a substitute for manual saving or to protect users from
negligence.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote in
message ...
Hi Beth:
Yeah: Take it away! And bring back the old mechanism that used to work.
If we must, rename the useless one to "Change logging." Because that's
what
it does: it logs the changes to a file. But only if the file has already
been saved :-)
Cheers
On 16/1/07 2:55 PM, in article , "Beth
Melton" wrote:
The option was called AutoSave at one point then it was changed to "Save
AutoRecover information". Do you have a suggestion that could help make
it
more clear?
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"roybaylis" wrote in message
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
To think for years I have been relying on this - to no avail.
Ignorance is NOT (now) bliss!!!
Why don't Microsoft make this clearer?
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
There is no "autosave" in Word. See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm
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Words into Type
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"roybaylis" wrote in message
...
I have recently lost some Word docs, despite having autosave set to 1
minute.
Journal was switched off, so no joy there.
Any ideas?!
Thanks a million.
Roy
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