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Backups
RE Word 2002
I can not get Word to consistently make backups. I seem to recall you have to hit the SAVE button twice to make backups automatically? In any case when I go to Save As - Tools - Save Options ..... Always create backups is checked but it doesn't seem to do that. I can not find the backup file. Other times it seems to work just fine. Making me crazy. Ron Patterson |
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You won't see the backup file unless you have All Files displayed in the
File Open dialog. It will be saved as "Backup of filename.wbk." Note that it isn't a backup in the sense of a duplicate copy; it is just a copy of the previous version. See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ron Patterson" wrote in message k.net... RE Word 2002 I can not get Word to consistently make backups. I seem to recall you have to hit the SAVE button twice to make backups automatically? In any case when I go to Save As - Tools - Save Options ..... Always create backups is checked but it doesn't seem to do that. I can not find the backup file. Other times it seems to work just fine. Making me crazy. Ron Patterson |
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Thanks Suzanne
But when I go to the appropriate folder in My Documents and open it I can see all the other files and their respective backups but not the one I am currently trying to backup. i.e. I just made a new Word file in a folder in My Docs. I SAVED it 2 or 3 times rapidly. When I go to Explorer and look in My Docs and that folder, it shows the file I just created and the old files and their respective backups but not a backup of the new file. And Always Create Backups was checked in Save As tools. Ron "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You won't see the backup file unless you have All Files displayed in the File Open dialog. It will be saved as "Backup of filename.wbk." Note that it isn't a backup in the sense of a duplicate copy; it is just a copy of the previous version. See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ron Patterson" wrote in message k.net... RE Word 2002 I can not get Word to consistently make backups. I seem to recall you have to hit the SAVE button twice to make backups automatically? In any case when I go to Save As - Tools - Save Options ..... Always create backups is checked but it doesn't seem to do that. I can not find the backup file. Other times it seems to work just fine. Making me crazy. Ron Patterson |
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If you saved it several times rapidly, you probably really saved it only
once. Unless you had actually made changes, Word did not save it after the first time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ron Patterson" wrote in message news Thanks Suzanne But when I go to the appropriate folder in My Documents and open it I can see all the other files and their respective backups but not the one I am currently trying to backup. i.e. I just made a new Word file in a folder in My Docs. I SAVED it 2 or 3 times rapidly. When I go to Explorer and look in My Docs and that folder, it shows the file I just created and the old files and their respective backups but not a backup of the new file. And Always Create Backups was checked in Save As tools. Ron "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You won't see the backup file unless you have All Files displayed in the File Open dialog. It will be saved as "Backup of filename.wbk." Note that it isn't a backup in the sense of a duplicate copy; it is just a copy of the previous version. See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ron Patterson" wrote in message k.net... RE Word 2002 I can not get Word to consistently make backups. I seem to recall you have to hit the SAVE button twice to make backups automatically? In any case when I go to Save As - Tools - Save Options ..... Always create backups is checked but it doesn't seem to do that. I can not find the backup file. Other times it seems to work just fine. Making me crazy. Ron Patterson |
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As susan said, it's not literally a backup: It's always going to
be one revision prior to the most recent one that you saved. Clicking Save rapidly and repeatedly would not create more files; Word would just back up the file once, and wait for you to make more changes. Each time you change something in a file, then Save, the file as it looked BEFORE you saved, is copied to backup of filename.wbk. Is the confusion because you think the rapidly clicking Save does something different than just clicking it once? If so, you are under a mis-conception. As soon as the Save operatoin starts, Word quits paying attention to the keyboard or mouse until it completes the Save, which is probably when you are doing the rapid clicks? Just a thought. Pop Ron Patterson wrote: Thanks Suzanne But when I go to the appropriate folder in My Documents and open it I can see all the other files and their respective backups but not the one I am currently trying to backup. i.e. I just made a new Word file in a folder in My Docs. I SAVED it 2 or 3 times rapidly. When I go to Explorer and look in My Docs and that folder, it shows the file I just created and the old files and their respective backups but not a backup of the new file. And Always Create Backups was checked in Save As tools. Ron "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You won't see the backup file unless you have All Files displayed in the File Open dialog. It will be saved as "Backup of filename.wbk." Note that it isn't a backup in the sense of a duplicate copy; it is just a copy of the previous version. See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ron Patterson" wrote in message k.net... RE Word 2002 I can not get Word to consistently make backups. I seem to recall you have to hit the SAVE button twice to make backups automatically? In any case when I go to Save As - Tools - Save Options ..... Always create backups is checked but it doesn't seem to do that. I can not find the backup file. Other times it seems to work just fine. Making me crazy. Ron Patterson |